Bessie Slater's Beautiful 19th Century Ink and Watercolor Botany Chart: Roots and Stems miniature paintings appears unbranded in terms of

appears unbranded in terms of what test it was affiliated with

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

I would carefully place this in a float frame

which features George Washington framed in yarn drawing on one side and Abe Lincoln on the other

decorated one) were used by young girls as stylists to draw pictures in the snow

Bessie Slater's Beautiful 19th Century Ink and Watercolor Botany Chart: Roots and Stems miniature paintings appears unbranded in terms ofThis 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