Sarah Dechant's 1882 Drawing Notebook, Catawissa, Pennsylvania slip trail decoration but haven't been able to

but haven't been able to dig up anything about him

) As is the gilded frame is I think a good and traditional fit for it and I'd just leave it alone

8 1/8" tall x 6 1/4" widest diameter

and might guess they were all once part of Miss Fanny Allen's collection

A lovely example

Sarah Dechant's 1882 Drawing Notebook, Catawissa, Pennsylvania slip trail decoration but haven't been able toDated 1882, this was the drawing notebook of a Sarah Dechant of Catawissa, Pennsylvania, in which she executed 22 drawings that I presume were part of course in learning the basics of line, shading, perspective, etc. And quite a nice job she did all done in graphite, the drawings are crisp and precise and many of them quite graphically satisfying things, which it would be easy to cut from the hard covered sketchbook to frame perfect for hanging in a