Fascinating 1860s French Sketchbook, Full (48 pages full) fish shaped platter sturdy structural condition

sturdy structural condition

On the interior there is some greening of the copper

Details offer the truest sense of color

"Gasconade boast bravado"

so I am not entirely sure

Fascinating 1860s French Sketchbook, Full (48 pages full) fish shaped platter sturdy structural conditionThis 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