Memoir of Charles Henry Porter by E. Goodrich Smith, 1849, with Wooly Mammoth Endpaper Drawing silver charm with abstracted bird flying overhead

with abstracted bird flying overhead

while she stares straight ahead directly at the camera

with what look to be arrows extended in different directions and a sort of bird-like form rendered in unglazed clay

the one on the right hiding her thumb

Another one that would make a great gift for a mother

Memoir of Charles Henry Porter by E. Goodrich Smith, 1849, with Wooly Mammoth Endpaper Drawing silver charm with abstracted bird flying overheadI am forever opening old books in hopes of finding drawings on the end papers so a happy surprise to find this one, which I take for a drawing of a wooly mammoth. Perhaps it was a bit later that the graphite drawing was enhanced with ink, I'm not sure but I really love the inked arrow at lower right, pointing out the snake wrapped around the tree! Perhaps that snake is signaling things to come, but in the meantime our mammoth seems a very serene