Executed by T.J. Pearce in Three Minutes: 19th Century Spencerian Ink Drawn Bird antique wooden hand mirror First photo is a composite

First photo is a composite

the bottom of this basket shows the museum accession number for it

So of course I could not resist this one

almost like a piece of tramp art

especially a portrait

Executed by T.J. Pearce in Three Minutes: 19th Century Spencerian Ink Drawn Bird antique wooden hand mirror First photo is a compositeA very lovely early Spencerian (calligraphic) ink drawing of a bird (with a list of expenses on the back, making me like it all the more.) But what is especially good about this one is that not only was it is signed by its maker "executed by" a T. J. Pearce, I believe it reads but he (I presume) also noted the time it took to draw: "in three minutes." Which suggests, as if not already apparent, that he was quite a practiced Spencerian calligrapher. I