This 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--this one the structures of leaves--with twenty different sorts described and carefully illustrated in watercolor (undulate, peltate, bipinnate, etc.) More than ever these days, when delight in the natural world offers primary solace from the madness of humans, this and these remind one of micro and macro orders, and growth and resilience, and also make me want to closely study every plant I pass! And, in the gray months ahead, a means to hold close the greens of spring. Delicate and special feeling, better in hand, very lovely.
12 x 7 1/2, ink and watercolor on card, very good condition. The text, written in pen and ink with a fine nib, requires a but of effort to read, but the watercolor is lush and bold, jumping of the page.
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