Bessie Slater's Beautiful 19th Century Ink and Watercolor Botany Chart: Stems, Appendages, Calices measuring looking as if perhaps a

looking as if perhaps a few months pregnant and  mending (I assume) what looks more like a sheet or blanket than a shirt

I presume a hen pecking away--very sweet and charming

and I look at a lot of them

9 3/4" long x 5 1/8" wide x 2" tall

swimming forth from text

Bessie Slater's Beautiful 19th Century Ink and Watercolor Botany Chart: Stems, Appendages, Calices measuring looking as if perhaps aThis 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 detailing stems (scaly, hairy, etc), appendages (sheath, tendril, etc) and calices (imbricated, double calyx, etc with 30 different sorts described and carefully illustrated in watercolor.