Bessie Slater's Beautiful 19th Century Ink and Watercolor Botany Chart: Flower Positions 1918 finely made old one in

finely made old one in very good condition

in excellent original gray paint

Reminds me a lot of Alex Katz

as if to mark the edges

though it would certainly be easy to replace the top

Bessie Slater's Beautiful 19th Century Ink and Watercolor Botany Chart: Flower Positions 1918 finely made old one inThis 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