Fascinating 1860s French Sketchbook, Full (48 pages full) cute 11 1/8" x 9 1/8"

11 1/8" x 9 1/8" x 1"

pigs and horses in the same style of his carvings

Perhaps not everyone would see beauty in this

in great condition with a nice warm patina

Best of all this marvelous bright yellow papoose

Fascinating 1860s French Sketchbook, Full (48 pages full) cute 11 1/8" x 9 1/8"This small but chock full watercolor drawing sketchbook is French, 1860s, purchased from a seller there; many time better in hand than my photos convey, and really quite marvelous, including for the diversity and often unusualness at least to contemporary eyes of its contents. Lots of portraits of people in the gardens of Paris, or on the street and one in the morgue (visiting the morgue was a popular pastime in mid 19th c. Paris.) A series of