Double Sided Ledger Drawing: Native American Battle Scene, March to Mexico keep out sign a fantastic pop of color

a fantastic pop of color

and in their original box

It is possible the colors were once brighter

9 5/16" x 8 3/8" framed

but I find it entirely congruent with the seascape represented

Double Sided Ledger Drawing: Native American Battle Scene, March to Mexico keep out sign a fantastic pop of colorAnother from a series of battle scene drawings done by a kid long ago making use of the pages of a 1870s 80s ledger, each with a bit of a different sort of energy, making me think they may have been done by a couple of different boys, or one over several years. Much of what I personally love about these sorts of drawings is how vividly one feels they lived in the present in the imagination of their maker, and in this one, of Native Americans very much