The Life of Christ, 1870, with Unholy Endpaper Drawings! victorian ladies Lovely and poignant

Lovely and poignant

Edmund Squire

American ones especially

) I'm quite content just to marvel at it

It took me a bit of research to realize that it is after a painting by Mexico born painter and muralist Alfredo Ramos Martínez--who lived and worked in Mexico

The Life of Christ, 1870, with Unholy Endpaper Drawings! victorian ladies Lovely and poignantOne of two old books with end paper drawings today, which I'll never stop hunting for, even if just building a collection for myself. Two great graphite drawings here, the work of an L. M. Willis who signed his name twice one drawing on the front inside cover and one on the back. Of course I especially love the juxtaposition of these unholy looking characters, one drinking and one smoking (with great little hand pointing at him as if in admonishment)