Charmingly Crude 1907 Topsy Turvy Ink Drawn Portraits cool budvase with a few minor scratches

with a few minor scratches and a small chip to one corner of the book and a bit of pinkish stain along the front edge of the book

and a Pepe le Pew-looking "P

22 3/8" x 2 5/8"

Seems to me no words could really do justice to the exuberant full of life-ness of this painting

Charmingly Crude 1907 Topsy Turvy Ink Drawn Portraits cool budvase with a few minor scratchesOne sees "topsy turvies" like this now and then which read one way right side up, and another upside down; most often I've seen them as printed images, but occasionally hand drawn versions, too, as here, though I don't think I've ever seen four together. And what I especially love about this is that the drawings just barely achieve their intended double faced natures requiring one to extend a certain generosity toward the drawings, and their maker, in