Sweet Naive 1880s Graphite Drawing of Hillside Village with Church vintage whist marker stamped on the back as

stamped on the back as having been made by Ebenezer Averill Boxworks

highly influential teacher--at the Venice Art Center

and comes off entirely

a souvenir from Coney Island circa 1950s

while creating a simply stunning

Sweet Naive 1880s Graphite Drawing of Hillside Village with Church vintage whist marker stamped on the back asI'm really smitten with this sweet little "naive" pencil drawing of a hillside village, one of two in the shop that came from a larger collection of drawings executed by the unknown artist on a Grand Tour encompassing Italy, Germany, Switzerland and Norway. I love everything about it, perhaps the way the row of trees march neatly up the hill behind the village most of all, punctuated by a cross at the very top, but also those tiny benches, all those