Lucy Jones' Mid 19th C. Sketchbooks (2) Filled with Graphite Drawings small watercolors together making crabgrass

together making crabgrass

I think they would be be great framed

I think it is a very beautiful  thing

Believed to bring good luck

though as noted these are not perfect cubes

Lucy Jones' Mid 19th C. Sketchbooks (2) Filled with Graphite Drawings small watercolors together making crabgrassThis is quite a trove two 19th c. marble covered sketchbooks filled (every single page) with graphite drawings by a Lucy Jones, along with a hand written (undated) obituary tucked into one of them, which describes Lucy as a school teacher with a "cunning hand" in "housewifery, needlework, drawing and painting, flower culture and in many other occupations requiring taste and patience and skill of eye and touch." One of the sketchbooks shows Lucy