Annie Darragh, The Elder Sister, 19th C. Ink Drawing with SeeSawing Children on Reverse antiqueoil on canvas 2 1/8” t x 2”

2 1/8” t x 2” d x 3” across at handle

just resting on a nail

The whistle is in great shaped structurally but its surface shows some age and wear

but sometimes a piece hits it exactly

it feels quite tender and poignant as well as wonderfully strange

Annie Darragh, The Elder Sister, 19th C. Ink Drawing with SeeSawing Children on Reverse antiqueoil on canvas 2 1/8” t x 2”The drawing of the "elder sister" book open, cross around her neck, and younger brother to either side is what first sold me on this 19th c. ink drawing, but there are more delights to be found everywhere, including those great baskets filled high with fruit, that energetically rendered tree (the source of the bounty I presume) with a little bird on a branch to the right side, and a series of scrolls announcing the drawing as the work of a young Annie