June Chase's 1850s Notebook / Sketchbook, Boston MA wooden watch stand I love the extreme folkiness

I love the extreme folkiness of this chief

and numbered 36 from an edition of 95

no matter at all

16 3/4" x 16 1/8" x 2 1/2" deep including nails

June Chase's 1850s Notebook / Sketchbook, Boston MA wooden watch stand I love the extreme folkinessWhile some of the graphite drawings in it show some smudging and softening no great surprise, being 170 or so years old this, I think, is quite a marvelous thing, both as a document of pre Civil War, 2nd Great Awakening era New England, and for the drawings themselves. It appears to have been the notebook of a June Chase of Boston, MA, who I believe was a member of the Chase family of New England, descending from early American settlers Aquila Chase