Girl Riding Giant Dog, Naive Victorian Pencil Drawing folk art toys integrated into the weave

integrated into the weave

which the four small holes on the lid and front of the box indicate it once had

4 1/8" t x 2 3/8" w x 1 5/16" d

into which the sliding lid fits perfectly

and I'd guess one of a kind

Girl Riding Giant Dog, Naive Victorian Pencil Drawing folk art toys integrated into the weaveThe more Victorian era naive drawings and watercolors I look at, the more I've come to recognize specific subjects this is the second drawing of girl riding a giant dog and having dropped her hat that I've found, the both way more primitive but both clearly based on the same popular image. Together with what I'm sure are many more versions out there, they thus become studies in theme and variation, revealing much about their makers through comparison.