Bessie Slater's Beautiful 19th Century Ink and Watercolor Botany Chart: Stems, Appendages, Calices I.B & co Photos document a few losses

Photos document a few losses and wear to the surface of the bird and aging to the mirror

is made from a mixture of the juice of the Thitsi tree and ash

mid 19th century American I would think

and this is most definitely that

RPPC with unused back but black paper residue

Bessie Slater's Beautiful 19th Century Ink and Watercolor Botany Chart: Stems, Appendages, Calices I.B & co Photos document a few lossesThis 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 detailing stems (scaly, hairy, etc), appendages (sheath, tendril, etc) and calices (imbricated, double calyx, etc with 30 different sorts described and carefully illustrated in watercolor.