Immortality...Immateriality, Perfectly Poignant 19th Century Penmanship Practice Page early portrait miniature sliding easily and holding tightly

sliding easily and holding tightly in place

This one makes me think of the sea and the sun and feels to me the most elementally perfect of all

and while I can't find the name of its then owner on it anywhere

but never one from the 18th century

Immortality...Immateriality, Perfectly Poignant 19th Century Penmanship Practice Page early portrait miniature sliding easily and holding tightlyYou know I love penmanship practice notebooks of many sorts, and I don't ever break them up but this single page I found alone, and is a perfect found object as far as I am concerned: what could be more poignant than the pairing of "Immortality" and "Immateriality" written many times over? A pure (and rather existential feeling) found poem, which one might interpret resolve in any number of ways depending on one's disposition. And with Horticulture