Peter Crouse's Beautiful and Resonant 1831-32 Penmanship Notebook, Oppenheim, NY bone typewriter brush 5 1/8" x 7 5/8"

5 1/8" x 7 5/8"

This appears to be an original drawing done in black marker

with drippy red mouth and yellow around the black eye balls

complete deck

and black painted eye lashes/brows

Peter Crouse's Beautiful and Resonant 1831-32 Penmanship Notebook, Oppenheim, NY bone typewriter brush 5 1/8" x 7 5/8"My 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