Hand-drawn Pen and Ink Sleeping Clerk Antique British Postcard elephant and donkey late 19th or very early

late 19th or very early 20th century

I think it would be just the perfect thing to hang in a guest room

especially that blue bow around the tugging dog's neck and the little girl's flailing arms and plaid stockings

thick walled

The painterly white and inky dark blue glazing around the body of the vase has been incised to reveal the black slip underneath

Hand-drawn Pen and Ink Sleeping Clerk Antique British Postcard elephant and donkey late 19th or very early"Officious curate (whilst preaching): 'Will someone wake the village clerk?' V. Clerk: 'I'm not asleep, I'm listening'!' Thus reads the caption on the front of this late 19th early 20th century hand drawn British postcard, with wonderful portrait of the sleeping listening clerk, top hat at his feet. Almost as good is the matter of fact message on the back: "This really happened in Somersham church. The old clerk died a short time ago." Approx 3 1 2" x