This is one of a bunch of drawings by a D.B Webber of Concord, New Hampshire that I found together in a plastic sleeve digging through the files of a favorite antiquarian bookseller in Maine, all dated 1907--and it really made my day to find them, just my sorts of drawings, and of the sort it feels harder and harder to find. I haven't managed to definitively identify their maker, but there are plenty of records for Webbers in Concord and nearby. I think these pretty much speak for themselves--and of a lively mind, and eye, and hand, for sure. This, the sweetest and quietest I'd say, is also I think my favorite, with the walled garden feeling a but like an old family cemetery plot; one has the sense of the two ducks as protectors, and the lone tree protecting them in turn.
5 1/2" x 4 1/4". Ink and graphite on white card, with a bit of a sheen to the surface of the card.
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