Early 19th Century Ink and Graphite Drawing of Hotel with Church on Horizon in Lemon Gold Frame noicemaker Two fine graphite portrait drawings

Two fine graphite portrait drawings of the same woman

Beautiful aged condition

especially in glimmering gold paint

unable to see the man on the other side useless pointing out her impending doom

and custom top in great shape

Early 19th Century Ink and Graphite Drawing of Hotel with Church on Horizon in Lemon Gold Frame noicemaker Two fine graphite portrait drawingsI found this drawing digging through an old pile of papers at Brimfield, and you can bet I dug through that and every box near it hoping to discover others similar (sadly not.) Nothing I love more that an early naive American drawing of a architectural structure like this, surely done on the page of an antique school ledger, early 19th c. I believe. The best rich black on those windows, soft around the edges, with "hotel" written twice above it, to