Adventures of Ned, Fred and Ellis - Set of Four Humorous Ink Drawings sky The Band of Hope referred

The Band of Hope referred to here is a temperance organization for working-class children founded in Leeds in 1847

to lead him out of the ring

15 7/8” w x 11 1/8” t x 1 1/16” and in very good condition

I've just learned this piece is a quintessential example of the recent work of Bowdoinham

they lived in Sugarcreek Ohio) and that three years later he was still celebrating her birth--and/or maybe it just took him that long to get around to it

Adventures of Ned, Fred and Ellis - Set of Four Humorous Ink Drawings sky The Band of Hope referredFour drawings total here, shown across the first and second photos the first the largest and the other three postcard sized. Together they portray adventures of Ned and Fred and Ellis: heading to the woods with a cart full of apple tree knots (which Ned alone seems to have chopped), burying a skunk, and chauffeuring a cow while a cat runs along beside them, and then a big question mark begging the question of what came next!? Seems perhaps the work of