Bessie Slater's Beautiful 19th Century Ink and Watercolor Botany Chart: Roots and Stems holy man Orme and Brown in London

Orme and Brown in London

2 3/4" t x 1 3/4" w x 13/16" d

Plus it exposes brown paper bellows

The puppets appear never to have been used

with a wonderful richness to the color and surface

Bessie Slater's Beautiful 19th Century Ink and Watercolor Botany Chart: Roots and Stems holy man Orme and Brown in LondonThis 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 roots and stems with eight different root types (fibrous, creeping, spindle shaped) and twelve different stem types (herbaceous, woody, erect) described and carefully illustrated in