Laura's Rose, 19th C. Naive Graphite Drawing on Lined Paper bert Froebel's Kindergarten used play as

Froebel's Kindergarten used play as its engine and his Spielgaben ("play gifts") were the fuel

with her letters detailing a series of romances with different fellows

This little jewel of a bowl

in addition to several iterations of W

with the instruction that on fair days the woman should be turned into the sun

Laura's Rose, 19th C. Naive Graphite Drawing on Lined Paper bert Froebel's Kindergarten used play asThe Laura who signed this above the lower border does have a last name, but she wrote it with so many flourishes I find it very hard to read! She clearly liked her flourishes, seemingly adding them wherever she could, but I think she got the rose really right, with a nice wildness to the leaves furling in every direction, and a feeling of this rose as a very living thing, as if swarming with bumblebees! 8 1 8 x 5, overall good condition, with some