C. 1900 Ink, Inkwash, Pencil Drawing of Two Hunted Deer Ballantine beer cans French scratched into the paint

French scratched into the paint on the underside) is what sold me on this caddy

most commonly in paper-wrapped sub-packets of five "strips" of 17

This hatted and bespectacled man reminds me rather of James Joyce--a smart

The snowy ground

It is signed on the underside but I can't quite decipher the signature

C. 1900 Ink, Inkwash, Pencil Drawing of Two Hunted Deer Ballantine beer cans French scratched into the paintThis delicate ink and ink wash drawing of two hanging deer was done on the back of the title page of a 1898 copy of the The Strand Magazine, a British periodical featuring short fiction and general interest articles. One wonders the drawing was inspired by a story inside, or whether the magazine was taken on a hunting trip for evening reading and the deer drawn from life. I find it quite elegiac, with fallen log on the ground amplifying a sense of