Bessie Slater's Beautiful 19th Century Ink and Watercolor Botany Chart: Roots and Stems miniature paintings finding them quite beautiful objects

finding them quite beautiful objects formally

with a bit of minor scratching to the glass here and there and a few tiny dark spots on the etched forms

71 pages of wood-engravings

decorated one) were used by young girls as stylists to draw pictures in the snow

I have a weakness for these 19th c

Bessie Slater's Beautiful 19th Century Ink and Watercolor Botany Chart: Roots and Stems miniature paintings finding them quite beautiful objectsThis 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