Willis Hutchinson 1883 Double-Sided Drawing: Fox, More Boats and Horses, Flags trompe l'oueil and feels to me as

and feels to me as if it ought to inspire a novel or a play or at least a poem about childhood and fantasy and confronting the existential void

Some tarnishing and darkening to the enamel as pictured

earlyish 20th century

in a wonderfully elemental way

Willis Hutchinson 1883 Double-Sided Drawing: Fox, More Boats and Horses, Flags trompe l'oueil and feels to me asI recently listed a bunch of double sided drawings from a small sketchbook by a Willis Hutchinson, dated 1883 84, and am just now getting to listing the final few. Based on a couple of (super sweet!) hand drawn maps, I believe our Willis likely lived in Port Jefferson in Suffolk County, NY, on the North Shore of Long Island. Wilis name and the year 1883 appears on one page of the sketchook, which the last photo below details. My favorite thing about