LION with Huge Red Lipped Smile, Marvelous Large Pastel on Paper Folk Drawing, Framed as Found wooden and iron spokeshave Sealed tight

Sealed tight

I believe the lid was likely to a paint can--it's about that size--and of course I love a painting made on whatever happens to be sitting around

and I believe made of boxwood

but I might guess that they were and that they date to about the same time

I keep wanting to call this one "look homeward angel

LION with Huge Red Lipped Smile, Marvelous Large Pastel on Paper Folk Drawing, Framed as Found wooden and iron spokeshave Sealed tightI wish I knew everything about this one but I don't. I know it lived in a New England collection for many years, the same collection as the 1817 Lady Justice watercolor listed today; I purchased both from relatives, and know this lion was the owner's favorite. No wonder! It feels to me more more like a work of a self taught artist than a child, and a bit more "outsider" than "folk" a visionary version of a lion, though very much in conversation with a