Bessie Slater's Beautiful 19th Century Ink and Watercolor Botany Chart: Flower Parts & Seeds envelope frame every leaf painted

every leaf painted

he also seems perhaps to have been been albino

and of the sort to invent a whole story around

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Bessie Slater's Beautiful 19th Century Ink and Watercolor Botany Chart: Flower Parts & Seeds envelope frame every leaf paintedThis 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 is all about pollination reproduction, detailing corolla, stamens, pistils, seed vessels, and seeds, with 26 examples described and carefully illustrated in watercolor. More than ever these