Bessie Slater's Beautiful 19th Century Ink and Watercolor Botany Chart: Leaves primitive board which comes from the Bible

which comes from the Bible

with squarish links that very much show the hand--or blade

I've found none for Caspar Merritt

but which is very much simpatico with the rest

often a few times on a page

Bessie Slater's Beautiful 19th Century Ink and Watercolor Botany Chart: Leaves primitive board which comes from the BibleThis 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