Woman in Top Hat "The Would Be Poet" 1913 Pen and Ink Signed Drawing black Americana figures but most all of it

but most all of it can be read

This is a stunning vintage or antique (I am just not sure of the age

I am quite smitten with this tiny

and a few bumps in the glaze original to its making

Woman in Top Hat "The Would Be Poet" 1913 Pen and Ink Signed Drawing black Americana figures but most all of itSome things I take a while to deliberate over before purchasing, but not this drawing it sold me immediately! I have no idea the story behind it; whether it was drawn as a self effacing self portrait of sorts, or as a caricature satirizing the rise of aspiring women authors I like to think the former, but in any event I think she's terrific, and seems quite poised to accomplish whatever she sets her mind to! At the moment this is penning an Ode to