Galium Trifidum (Bedstraw) Plant Specimen from 1878 Herbarium oil on linen plus the stucco like texture

plus the stucco like texture of the surface and the little steeple where one would expect a chimney

And it looks great stacked with a bunch of other boxes

with an unused back

Another wonderful old painter /duster brush

or incorporated into something new

Galium Trifidum (Bedstraw) Plant Specimen from 1878 Herbarium oil on linen plus the stucco like textureI have a fantasy that one day at a flea market I'll uncover a beautiful antique herbarium that's been sitting in the bottom of a box for 150 years or so filled with page upon page of perfectly documented pressed and dried plant specimens. Alas, this has yet to happen, but I did recently find a seller with a nice bunch of them all by a N. N. Jones, and I just went back to her for a few more. This one is Galium trifidum, also known as three petal