Annie Darragh, The Elder Sister, 19th C. Ink Drawing with SeeSawing Children on Reverse score keeper and wonderfully strange either way

and wonderfully strange either way

and I'll continue to snatch them up when I see them as I think they are just gorgeous

Plus the beautiful bleed of the old nails down the front of the pine

and a bit of peeling off/loss of adhesion on one part of the back side (I have not touched it

I purchased this from a seller in England and have found other drawings similar in style signed simply Esme Church

Annie Darragh, The Elder Sister, 19th C. Ink Drawing with SeeSawing Children on Reverse score keeper and wonderfully strange either wayThe drawing of the "elder sister" book open, cross around her neck, and younger brother to either side is what first sold me on this 19th c. ink drawing, but there are more delights to be found everywhere, including those great baskets filled high with fruit, that energetically rendered tree (the source of the bounty I presume) with a little bird on a branch to the right side, and a series of scrolls announcing the drawing as the work of a young Annie