Willis Hutchinson 1883 Double-Sided Drawing: Horses and Boats Artesania Rinconada Classic Collection tiger very commonly velvet

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Certainly this old guy once sat on a sulky behind a horse as part of a fine antique weathervane

1940s or 50s I'd think and in great structural shape

many of the phrases filling the pages of this notebook feel both extremely significant relative to the moment in American history at which they were written

with bright and colorfully painted equipment and

Willis Hutchinson 1883 Double-Sided Drawing: Horses and Boats Artesania Rinconada Classic Collection tiger very commonly velvetI recently listed a bunch of double sided drawings from a small sketchbook by a Willis Hutchinson, dated 1883 84, and am just now getting to listing the final few. Based on a couple of (super sweet!) hand drawn maps, I believe our Willis likely lived in Port Jefferson in Suffolk County, NY, on the North Shore of Long Island. Wilis name and the year 1883 appears on one page of the sketchook, which the last photo below details. Horses and boats were