(Freehand) Line and Form: 1880s Pennsylvania German Ink Drawing of Cabin with Conical Roof and Perfect Picket Fence varaha The mirrors are recent but

The mirrors are recent but the frame I believe is likely late 19th c

A piece of trench art I might guess

T Barnum and located in Lower Manhattan at the corner of Broadway

but I'm really charmed by it

and the pale wheat color of most of it

(Freehand) Line and Form: 1880s Pennsylvania German Ink Drawing of Cabin with Conical Roof and Perfect Picket Fence varaha The mirrors are recent butI know this ink drawing dates to right around 1880, and came from a ledger held by a young Burt Gemberling of Selinsgrove, Snyder County, PA who also drew the portrait of the Native American chief listed today. I love a painstakingly rendered portrait of an architectural structure in this manner, attention given to every beam and, best of all here, to each post of the picket fence to either side. Looking closely, none of the very straight looking