Ships at Shore, Allegorical Feeling Late 19th C. Ink / Ink Wash Drawing on Brown Paper in Old Frame mini bowling pins If purchasing the pair

If purchasing the pair

(It is interesting--given the apparent use of cheesecloth here ---that the origins of the phrase

but I like it as is

With some toning to the tintype I presume from how original framed

Ships at Shore, Allegorical Feeling Late 19th C. Ink / Ink Wash Drawing on Brown Paper in Old Frame mini bowling pins If purchasing the pairMy photos do no justice to this drawing, as I was fighting glare to take them, and the character of the brown paper, which has the quality of a lightweight brown paper bag paper, doesn't come across but it makes the drawing richer (and the blacks are richer than one has a sense of here, too.) Anyway, I think it is quite a nice drawing, late 19th c. or so, which has an allegorical feeling about it with the shored boat looking abandoned, and it and its