19th C Large Scrapbook Page Composition with Very Fine Botanical Watercolor at Center marble dust drawing what look perhaps to be

what look perhaps to be picnic tables in the foreground

what a couple of characters

as if sleep walking or preparing to deliver a a big

So the watercolor here is of a dogfish embryo being nourished by a yolk sac

Very early 20th century I would guess

19th C Large Scrapbook Page Composition with Very Fine Botanical Watercolor at Center marble dust drawing what look perhaps to beI've used a magnifier to confirm that the flowers at the center of this scrapbook page are indeed done in watercolor so finely it is quite difficult to imagine how, but so it is glorious! That panel certainly deserves to be at the center, but there are delights everywhere here, with collaged images and clippings and very carefully handwritten text all carefully arranged and commenting on one another. I especially like the "bottle imp" at lower left.