Peter Crouse's Beautiful and Resonant 1831-32 Penmanship Notebook, Oppenheim, NY blue and brown including teaching for 16 summers

including teaching for 16 summers in Brazil and Greece

with the bellows crafted of kid leather

The hand-thrown and manipulated form is terrific too

he or she packed a lot into this bucolic scene

dense with detail

Peter Crouse's Beautiful and Resonant 1831-32 Penmanship Notebook, Oppenheim, NY blue and brown including teaching for 16 summersMy photos here are poor, but this is great early one, 1831 32, the work of a young Peter Crouse (born 1816) of Oppenheim, Montgomery County, NY. I will never tire of these, the earlier the better, for the handwriting for sure, but even more than that for the resonance of the words and sentences written over and over, and for all of the quirks, too, such as words that didn't quite fit on the page and were snuck in as tails at the end. Many pages here