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! Whether the creature standing at the edge of cliff here is meant to be bear or wild boar I am not entirely sure, but he certainly looks to be a formidable match for our man with dagger below, and they both look possessed with a mix of ferocity and fear.
7 7/16" x 5 7/16", good condition, black and red ink on white card with a bit of a sheen to the surface of the card. And with another terrific drawing on reverse, but which shows some red ink stains, as pictured.
