Fascinating 1860s French Sketchbook, Full (48 pages full) fish shaped platter On the interior there is

On the interior there is some greening of the copper

And so he sleeps under the apple tree and around him linger only loving and tender memories

19 more cyanotype solar prints inside that one

Details offer the truest sense of color

which I especially love for it's relative absurdity as a doorstop

Fascinating 1860s French Sketchbook, Full (48 pages full) fish shaped platter On the interior there isThis 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