George Abbott's Model & Design Sketchbook with Lovely Hand-drawn Patterns photograph of coral or mythical creature

or mythical creature

allowing one to pose him in all sorts of ways

And what a beautiful framing of it

and general toning to the paper

and it struck me as looking like a figure waving

George Abbott's Model & Design Sketchbook with Lovely Hand-drawn Patterns photograph of coral or mythical creatureOne of three 1870s notebooks today from a George Abbott of Boston, MA, this one not full (if only!), but with a handful of very lovely drawings in it, several very carefully done pattern designs included and one stand along gouache on paper pattern painting loose inside its pages that I'd frame straight away. Photos show pretty much all of the pages, with short descriptions below them identifying a few as drawn from geometric "solids models" and