Bessie Slater's Beautiful 19th Century Ink and Watercolor Botany Chart: Stems, Appendages, Calices I.B & co and this is most definitely

and this is most definitely that

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

I'd sure love to live with the the real thing

and this is a lovely

I am a sucker for a red cross patch or pin

Bessie Slater's Beautiful 19th Century Ink and Watercolor Botany Chart: Stems, Appendages, Calices I.B & co and this is most definitelyThis 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.