Much Loved Old Handmade Rag Bunny with Many Darned Spots odd fellows photo button and which gives the piece

and which gives the piece a terrific immediacy

just nice wear and softening  to the blue paint

9" x 13" 3/4" deep

Drawn in black ink (now kind of sepia toned) on an almost vellum-like paper (used by architects in the 19th c

Much Loved Old Handmade Rag Bunny with Many Darned Spots odd fellows photo button and which gives the pieceI love the slightly demonic looking face on this old rag bunny, which clearly did not deter someone, or someones, from loving it a whole lot, including doing a bunch of darning to its backside to preserve it. One can see some color from the rags stuffed inside showing through the cream colored fabric of its "skin" (which has a bit of a silky sheen) beneath the darning, though it is mostly a similar cream showing through the threadbare spots on the