Trapeziums, Rectangles, Parallelograms, 19th Century Ink Perspective Study Drawing handmade box with mirror with the black ground entirely

with the black ground entirely drawn in (in black pastel/charcoal)--a lot of effort

he seems very much as if he just hopped in from the garden

with ears above

whatever it once held onto long gone from its grasp

I love an old plumb just as an object (and they also always make me think of the model of French physicist J

Trapeziums, Rectangles, Parallelograms, 19th Century Ink Perspective Study Drawing handmade box with mirror with the black ground entirelyThis was loose among a larger lot of 19th century perspective drawings, including a full notebook (listed a few weeks ago and still available as of this writing.) I find this one quite satisfying in a stand alone way for the combination of structures, and maybe especially the combination of free standing and hanging signs. And the descriptive titles "The square, the parallelogram, rectangle"; "Trapeziums, Rectangles, Parallelograms," sound like poems