Shower Me With Love Wonderfully Strange Old Bathing Beauty Rum Bottle bentwood bowl This sketchbook was signed by

This sketchbook was signed by Elton Silas Durkee (1871-1927

in an old wooden frame

It seems quite possible that this one actually lived in the garden

Among the pages of the story he's done four illustrations--the first two in watercolor

and associations to work of diverse other artists abound

Shower Me With Love Wonderfully Strange Old Bathing Beauty Rum Bottle bentwood bowl This sketchbook was signed byWhat a weird one! I love it for its strangeness, and how almost demonic she looks, as if having already imbibed a good deal of rum, and with this little fox gazing up at her seeming a bit afraid of what she might do! The wear to the surface just enhances the effect, perhaps making one want to swear off rum altogether! (And it also makes me imagine that whatever rum once filled this bottle had to have been very much a home brew, a la bathtub gin!) 7 1