Early Victorian Watercolor and Pencil Sketches of Girls with Ringlets inky with these green painted stripes

with these green painted stripes

I've looked and looked

clearly done a very long time ago

holder for pencils

while the box is very worn and taped together a bit on the sides

Early Victorian Watercolor and Pencil Sketches of Girls with Ringlets inky with these green painted stripesI love the juxtaposition of these multiples profile views of young women, who I think quite charmed the artist as he sketched them nearly 200 years ago. I am not certain if this flurry of ringleted girls the style of the day include a few different takes on "Jane," who is named below another drawing in ink on the reverse side, or are all different, but a lovely small double sided drawing I think they together make! This drawing came from a collection