JH Adaire, Ink and Crayon Rooster and Grouse (?) Drawing, 1905, Spring Grove PA kid watercolor 13 1/2”l x 7 3/4”

13 1/2”l  x 7 3/4” t x 9 9/16” d and in good condition

a bit of minor toning

The colors are two different shades of blue—one a bit lighter for the outer perimeter

which is totally radiant

and it will lie flat once mounted/framed

JH Adaire, Ink and Crayon Rooster and Grouse (?) Drawing, 1905, Spring Grove PA kid watercolor 13 1/2”l x 7 3/4”A few more today by a young J. H Adaire of Spring Grove, PA, dated 1905 I bought and sold a handful a month or two ago, then just went back to the seller to scoop up a handful more. Just my sort of naive and exuberant drawings, and I really really love the postures and the colors and patterning on these two, which I take for a rooster and a grouse though perhaps the latter is a partridge, or? Whatever the case, I can very much imagine the one