Bessie Slater's Beautiful 19th Century Ink and Watercolor Botany Chart: Roots and Stems miniature paintings I have a weakness for

I have a weakness for these 19th c

with a bit of minor scratching to the glass here and there and a few tiny dark spots on the etched forms

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

with wear and paint loss as evident

Bessie Slater's Beautiful 19th Century Ink and Watercolor Botany Chart: Roots and Stems miniature paintings I have a weakness forThis 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