Marvelous 19th C Ink + Watercolor Drawing Illustrating Gridding and Perspective antique painting the women's branch of the

the women's branch of the US Army--formed as an auxiliary unit (WAAC)  in 1942

which could be hung or just laid somewhere like a garland

with some pencil sketching visible under the ink

Johnston at Springfield Farm

and numbers written in pencil on the back inside cover

Marvelous 19th C Ink + Watercolor Drawing Illustrating Gridding and Perspective antique painting the women's branch of theIt was pure delight to find this drawing, wonderfully illustrating how to "enlarge or diminish by means of a square," and then one point perspective, with eye of the scope held by our heroine serving as the vanishing point. I really love that even as they illustrate systematic scaling up or down of a particular image, the two gridded women have entirely different sorts of faces (though they share the same fabulous gown). And then this fabulous all