"To her there was a great charm in all that goes to the making of pictures."  From Eyebright by Susan Coolidge, 1879.

We like the idea that noses, feet, barrels, bottles, and clocks are offered as proofs of the spirit world.  These are, of course, a telepath's drawings next to the images that were transmitted.  From Proofs of the Spirit World by Léon Chevreuil, 1920.

"Draw your own conclusions here."  From Salem's 1938 yearbook.

Reblog if this gives you a sense of perspective.  From Le Courrier Français, 1892.

From Krokodil, 1928.

Here's how everybody, when blindfolded, draws a pig wrong in exactly the same way.  From The Idler, 1894.

The winsome Jonathan notes: "Blindfolded pig drawing has come a long way in the past 125 years. Evidence attached!"

"How on earth can you expect a fellow to do a picture, when this sort of thing goes on?"  A sketch from Charles Rawson's diary, 25 August, 1871.  Courtesy of the State Library of Queensland.

Here's an ad that actually promotes Stendhal Syndrome, a psychosomatic disorder in which you hallucinate that an artwork is speaking to you.  The sketch says, "Draw me!"  From Popular Mechanics, 1934.

"This [indubitably] is a kow."  From The Index, 1908.

We draw all of our stars through a looking glass, too.  "Drawing star from mirror."  From Popular Mechanics, 1930.

"Drawing on fungus—a novel and pleasing art."  From Popular Science Monthly, 1921.

Indeed, a magazine highly skeptical of mysticism and the occult encourages using shadows to trace grotesque, horned entities.  From Popular Mechanics, 1928.