swimming forth from text
and I look at a lot of them
Smallish face sized: 5 15/16" t x 4 7/8" wide
I can't quite tell from the cover whether this belonged to Fern
5 1/16 x 1 7/8 and in good antique condition
Bessie Slater's Beautiful 19th Century Ink and Watercolor Botany Chart: Stems, Appendages, Calices measuring swimming forth from textThis is one of a series of beautiful antique ink and watercolor charts listed today, all executed long ago by a Bessie Slater (I believe, signed on the back of one of them), for a botany class, I presume. Each one homes in on a different aspect or aspects this one detailing stems (scaly, hairy, etc), appendages (sheath, tendril, etc) and calices (imbricated, double calyx, etc with 30 different sorts described and carefully illustrated in watercolor.