Bessie Slater's Beautiful 19th Century Ink and Watercolor Botany Chart: Flower Positions 1918 I do look at these

I do look at these sorts of albums

surrounded by linen mat

Reminds me a lot of Alex Katz

Not my expertise

My guess is perhaps made at school long ago or by a few different siblings--perhaps with the help of a more dexterous mother or teacher doing some of the finer cutting

Bessie Slater's Beautiful 19th Century Ink and Watercolor Botany Chart: Flower Positions 1918 I do look at theseThis 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 the "positions" of floral blooms lateral, whorled, tubuar, etc with 25 different sorts described and carefully illustrated in watercolor. More than ever these days, when delight in the