C. 1900 Ink, Inkwash, Pencil Drawing of Two Hunted Deer antique wooden train 6" l x 6 1/4"

6" l x 6 1/4" wide with wings spread

I am pretty certain the silk itself measures 5"x7"

then the face--seeming to me exactly the face that a coffee cup should have--was incised and and clay eyes added

a small tear along the bottom edge

I think this now may be my favorite old hand-painted postcard I've found

C. 1900 Ink, Inkwash, Pencil Drawing of Two Hunted Deer antique wooden train 6" l x 6 1/4"This delicate ink and ink wash drawing of two hanging deer was done on the back of the title page of a 1898 copy of the The Strand Magazine, a British periodical featuring short fiction and general interest articles. One wonders the drawing was inspired by a story inside, or whether the magazine was taken on a hunting trip for evening reading and the deer drawn from life. I find it quite elegiac, with fallen log on the ground amplifying a sense of