Sarah Dechant's 1882 Drawing Notebook, Catawissa, Pennsylvania trade card would make me feel quite

would make me feel quite prepared for most anything

and though I've found a few records of them

12 3/4" t x 2 7/8" w x 1 1/8" d

and the old dark green paint

24 inches fully unfolded and made of boxwood with brass hinges and ends

Sarah Dechant's 1882 Drawing Notebook, Catawissa, Pennsylvania trade card would make me feel quiteDated 1882, this was the drawing notebook of a Sarah Dechant of Catawissa, Pennsylvania, in which she executed 22 drawings that I presume were part of course in learning the basics of line, shading, perspective, etc. And quite a nice job she did all done in graphite, the drawings are crisp and precise and many of them quite graphically satisfying things, which it would be easy to cut from the hard covered sketchbook to frame perfect for hanging in a