Polygonatum Giganteum (Solomon's Seal), Plant Specimen from 1878 Herbarium bevelled glass mirror plus that kerchief around his

plus that kerchief around his neck and those big eyes that seem to be coyly checking out something (or someone

All three though were hand-painted

Signed Krantz on the bottom

I'm really not sure

These are a pretty fascinating genre

Polygonatum Giganteum (Solomon's Seal), Plant Specimen from 1878 Herbarium bevelled glass mirror plus that kerchief around hisI have a fantasy that one day at a flea market I'll uncover a beautiful antique herbarium that's been sitting in the bottom of a box for 150 years or so filled with page upon page of perfectly documented pressed and dried plant specimens. Alas, this has yet to happen, but I did recently find a seller with a nice bunch of them all by a N. N. Jones, and I just went back to her for a few more. This one is Polygonatum Giganteum, also known as King