Heartbreaking "No One To Love" Antique Ink Drawing painting on tin and Vassar College Museum

and Vassar College Museum

cumulating as one goes

but he’s smiling widely still

Just a gorgeous silhouette and a handy size--perfect in the bathroom or on the desk holding little things

Photos are shot at 2x magnification (so you can see bits of dust here and there

Heartbreaking "No One To Love" Antique Ink Drawing painting on tin and Vassar College MuseumThis breaks my heart, but I love it so much and really in significant part for exactly that reason. In the text at the bottom, its maker misspelled "thee" as "the", but I've figured out it reads: I can not give the(e) up, with all thy faults I love the(e) still." And on the reverse: "No one to love." And then this poor fellow, flowers in hand, standing at the doorstep of the one he loves, who does not seem especially eager to open the door and let him