Double Sided Ledger Drawing: Native American Battle Scene, March to Mexico hand-painted womandoorstop On the back is printed

On the back is printed Yeaw & Co

The vessel itself is a very thin/light black glass

removed from the frame

This drawing dates to the very early 20th c

There is a bit of wear to lacquer around its edges and on its interior

Double Sided Ledger Drawing: Native American Battle Scene, March to Mexico hand-painted womandoorstop On the back is printedAnother from a series of battle scene drawings done by a kid long ago making use of the pages of a 1870s 80s ledger, each with a bit of a different sort of energy, making me think they may have been done by a couple of different boys, or one over several years. Much of what I personally love about these sorts of drawings is how vividly one feels they lived in the present in the imagination of their maker, and in this one, of Native Americans very much