Very Exuberant Markmaking! Mid 19th Century Penwork Woman in Hat on Horse in Period Frame modern Japanese textile with frame then painted around

with frame then painted around it

and even less often with information about its maker noted by a family member on reverse--so I was quite delighted to find this one

what I especially love about him and the horse both is all of the different postures they can be manipulated into

triangularly shaped slab of a slate-like stone

and scalloped edges along the bottom

Very Exuberant Markmaking! Mid 19th Century Penwork Woman in Hat on Horse in Period Frame modern Japanese textile with frame then painted aroundTotal love at first sight for me with this one, starting with this woman's wonderful, very folky, wide eyed and double browed face. I've got a great love for 19th century penwork drawings, which were very much a thing, but much less so for the ones that perfectly mimic examples published in instructive books of the period it's the expressive singularity that makes them special to me, as very much the case here, this one 1850s or so I believe. A