Descend and Sing Antique Ink Drawing After Alexander Pope Poem painted stool Bone had a great line

Bone had a great line and terrific sense of humor--which this pen and ink drawing animating a Victorian wicker reclining chair cut from an old catalog wonderfully exemplifies

I myself might be inclined to use it as a vase rather than a watering can (or simply to put it on a shelf to display as an object) but the handle on the back certainly makes it functional for watering the plants

and full scale IQ

with the features--including tattooed ear and fanstastic star-like wrinkles around the eye--playfully rendered in black ink dots

5” exterior diameter at mouth

Descend and Sing Antique Ink Drawing After Alexander Pope Poem painted stool Bone had a great lineThis beautifully executed drawing, which I might guess dates to the earlyish 19th century, takes its inspiration from the poem by Alexander Pope reproduced below. It seems the nine descendants from heaven, who have come to sing, have gained some earthly company, as I count thirteen altogether here, seven I think for sure with the wings of angels, and it does look like nine with instruments in hand. It seems quite appropriate that it should have been