Lucy Jones' Mid 19th C. Sketchbooks (2) Filled with Graphite Drawings small watercolors because of its flat bottom

because of its flat bottom and boxy form

But what additionally makes it for me though is how wonderfully the black ground makes the portrait pop

the late hour of the church clock

I think this print

Lucy Jones' Mid 19th C. Sketchbooks (2) Filled with Graphite Drawings small watercolors because of its flat bottomThis is quite a trove two 19th c. marble covered sketchbooks filled (every single page) with graphite drawings by a Lucy Jones, along with a hand written (undated) obituary tucked into one of them, which describes Lucy as a school teacher with a "cunning hand" in "housewifery, needlework, drawing and painting, flower culture and in many other occupations requiring taste and patience and skill of eye and touch." One of the sketchbooks shows Lucy