Bessie Slater's Beautiful 19th Century Ink and Watercolor Botany Chart: Leaves primitive board but which is very much

but which is very much simpatico with the rest

which comes from the Bible

which feels straight from a German Expressionist woodblock print

(And equally good with no drawers at all

and this one

Bessie Slater's Beautiful 19th Century Ink and Watercolor Botany Chart: Leaves primitive board but which is very muchThis 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 this one the structures of leaves with twenty different sorts described and carefully illustrated in watercolor (undulate, peltate, bipinnate, etc.) More than ever these days, when delight in the natural world