Early British Stereoview View: Botanical Anatomy wabi sabi Hard to beat these smiling

Hard to beat these smiling faces I think

using paint left over from other uses

It would look fantastic at the center of a table or on a sideboard holding a few huge white lilies

I found this little pig sitting next to a Schoenhut donkey on a shelf

and certainly inspiring my reverence

Early British Stereoview View: Botanical Anatomy wabi sabi Hard to beat these smilingI must say I like the back almost as much as the front of this early stereoview, with fancy cut and adhered label simply reading "Botanical Anatomy."The photos seem one part specimen obsession and one part early Victorian diorama of the whole world encased under a dome sort of variety. I presume it is actual plant specimens that have been painstakingly arranged, but there is certainly an ethereality about it almost as if an x ray view and definite