Trapeziums, Rectangles, Parallelograms, 19th Century Ink Perspective Study Drawing handmade box with mirror and the perfect green painted

and the perfect green painted top edge the top to make it pop

with one basket at his elbow and another balanced on his head

whatever it once held onto long gone from its grasp

Such a striking portrait on this lacquered papier-mache snuff box lid

with the black ground entirely drawn in (in black pastel/charcoal)--a lot of effort

Trapeziums, Rectangles, Parallelograms, 19th Century Ink Perspective Study Drawing handmade box with mirror and the perfect green paintedThis was loose among a larger lot of 19th century perspective drawings, including a full notebook (listed a few weeks ago and still available as of this writing.) I find this one quite satisfying in a stand alone way for the combination of structures, and maybe especially the combination of free standing and hanging signs. And the descriptive titles "The square, the parallelogram, rectangle"; "Trapeziums, Rectangles, Parallelograms," sound like poems