Wonderful Circa 1860s Ink Drawing of Towering Eagle in Period Frame dark blue and what a great one

and what a great one

but I find these wooden fishing hand lines (at least I believe that is what they are

There are a couple of minor scrapes/dings to the black frame

and red with some print on it for the tail

which I think could be pretty easily vacuumed out with a dust buster

Wonderful Circa 1860s Ink Drawing of Towering Eagle in Period Frame dark blue and what a great oneI am completely taken with drawing, which is just the right amount of strange! First this truly fabulous eagle, with fantastically detailed feathers (whoever draw this clearly got lost in the pleasures of mark making) and wonderfully striped talons, made all the greater by its relation to this little landscape and tiny house, such that it reads Godzilla like in scale. And then how this fence (perhaps) and bush (perhaps) morph into the realm of pure