Executed by T.J. Pearce in Three Minutes: 19th Century Spencerian Ink Drawn Bird cat with great face Great for kids

Great for kids

The outfits and colors are great

I'd guess 1920-40s

with her dog snuck beside her along the lower edge

Executed by T.J. Pearce in Three Minutes: 19th Century Spencerian Ink Drawn Bird cat with great face Great for kidsA very lovely early Spencerian (calligraphic) ink drawing of a bird (with a list of expenses on the back, making me like it all the more.) But what is especially good about this one is that not only was it is signed by its maker "executed by" a T. J. Pearce, I believe it reads but he (I presume) also noted the time it took to draw: "in three minutes." Which suggests, as if not already apparent, that he was quite a practiced Spencerian calligrapher. I