Nobilissimus Gulielmi Stark, Age 70, In Memoriam, Character-full Old Graphite Sketch mahogany This watercolor comes from a

This watercolor comes from a collection of landscape by an unknown artist portraying landscapes from the Lake District and Isle of Wright in the UK--popular travel destinations of the era

I am 100% for gun control

but later that tree was discovered to have been grafted

This perpetually joined pair is among my very favorite things I've found

Nobilissimus Gulielmi Stark, Age 70, In Memoriam, Character-full Old Graphite Sketch mahogany This watercolor comes from aLots of little odds and ends today that I've had sitting around things I came across somewhere or another and found too special or tender or full of life not to bring home. (A more disciplined dealer would leave things like this behind as there's no profit in them, but that's not me, and really I feel no choice in the matter!) And so this curious little drawing, rendered "in memoriam" for a Gulielmi Stark at age 70; I first thought an older woman, but