Bessie Slater's Beautiful 19th Century Ink and Watercolor Botany Chart: Roots and Stems miniature paintings decorated one) were used by

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

finding them quite beautiful objects formally

surely with sponges in hand to create the marbleized effect

appears unbranded in terms of what test it was affiliated with

I would carefully place this in a float frame

Bessie Slater's Beautiful 19th Century Ink and Watercolor Botany Chart: Roots and Stems miniature paintings decorated one) were used byThis 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