Bessie Slater's Beautiful 19th Century Ink and Watercolor Botany Chart: Leaves vintage cast metal dinosaur lid opens smoothly and closes

lid opens smoothly and closes flush

this wonderfully rendered woman wearing a pastel garden of a hat and terrific red cloak over intensively patterned dress

with hat and what looks like a torch--or perhaps the wand of a snow blower

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Bessie Slater's Beautiful 19th Century Ink and Watercolor Botany Chart: Leaves vintage cast metal dinosaur lid opens smoothly and closesThis 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 this one the structures of leaves with twenty different sorts described and carefully illustrated in watercolor (undulate, peltate, bipinnate, etc.) More than ever these days, when delight in the natural world