Bessie Slater's Beautiful 19th Century Ink and Watercolor Botany Chart: Roots and Stems miniature paintings finding them quite beautiful objects

finding them quite beautiful objects formally

surely with sponges in hand to create the marbleized effect

I would carefully place this in a float frame

I'm not quite sure if the bird was inlaid or just incised very finely and then painted/stained a slightly stronger red--but of it feels now like this happy surprise

Bessie Slater's Beautiful 19th Century Ink and Watercolor Botany Chart: Roots and Stems miniature paintings finding them quite beautiful objectsThis 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 roots and stems with eight different root types (fibrous, creeping, spindle shaped) and twelve different stem types (herbaceous, woody, erect) described and carefully illustrated in