Galium Trifidum (Bedstraw) Plant Specimen from 1878 Herbarium oil on linen Another wonderful old painter /duster

Another wonderful old painter /duster brush

plus the stucco like texture of the surface and the little steeple where one would expect a chimney

with a great combination of little flowers

I can't help but think of the pottery of Sophie Newcomb)

Box measures 7 3/4" x 5 1/2" x 1"

Galium Trifidum (Bedstraw) Plant Specimen from 1878 Herbarium oil on linen Another wonderful old painter /dusterI have a fantasy that one day at a flea market I'll uncover a beautiful antique herbarium that's been sitting in the bottom of a box for 150 years or so filled with page upon page of perfectly documented pressed and dried plant specimens. Alas, this has yet to happen, but I did recently find a seller with a nice bunch of them all by a N. N. Jones, and I just went back to her for a few more. This one is Galium trifidum, also known as three petal