Bessie Slater's Beautiful 19th Century Ink and Watercolor Botany Chart: Leaves vintage cast metal dinosaur is a story

is a story

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

simple but lovely backs

The slide top of the wooden box slides easily and closes tight

Bessie Slater's Beautiful 19th Century Ink and Watercolor Botany Chart: Leaves vintage cast metal dinosaur is a storyThis 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