Sarah Dechant's 1882 Drawing Notebook, Catawissa, Pennsylvania slip trail decoration its presence seems to enhance

its presence seems to enhance a sense of isolation

A lovely example

and might guess they were all once part of Miss Fanny Allen's collection

such that a tortoise pull toy would completely out run him

with a very folky exuberance to her blouse and skirt and big green collar

Sarah Dechant's 1882 Drawing Notebook, Catawissa, Pennsylvania slip trail decoration its presence seems to enhanceDated 1882, this was the drawing notebook of a Sarah Dechant of Catawissa, Pennsylvania, in which she executed 22 drawings that I presume were part of course in learning the basics of line, shading, perspective, etc. And quite a nice job she did all done in graphite, the drawings are crisp and precise and many of them quite graphically satisfying things, which it would be easy to cut from the hard covered sketchbook to frame perfect for hanging in a