Fantastic c. 1830 Ink Drawing of Lamia with Verses, Riddles, Numbers tramp art frames layer by layer

layer by layer

it become quite a popular little book and so was produced for years to come

I think it all adds up to a pretty perfect embodiment of black cat persona

I kind of like the directness of just taping a photo of one’s sweetheart to the back

and a bit of folding/tearing along the very bottom edge

Fantastic c. 1830 Ink Drawing of Lamia with Verses, Riddles, Numbers tramp art frames layer by layerThis! Its the fantastic drawing that makes this one of my very favorite pieces of paper Ive had in my possession, depicting what I first took for mermaids but believe may rather represent Lamiaa mythological child eating monster and, in later tradition, regarded as a type of night haunting spirit. The hand written text surrounding the drawingbearing the signature of a Lucy B. Howard, and which my favorite handwriting expert dates to 1830 or so, with