The Old Mill
Albert Bierstadt, 1855
The Death of Leonardo da Vinci in the Arms of François I
François-Guillaume Ménageot, c. 1781
1) Wood Anemone, Sharp-lobed Hepatica, Spring Beauty, Large-flowered Bellwort
2) Large White Trillium, Rock Columbine, Yellow Adder’s Tongue
3) Marsh Marigold, Wild Lupine
4) Wood Geranium, Purple Trillium, Squirrel Corn, Star Flower
5) Scarlet Painted Cup, Showy Orchis, Indian Turnip, Coneflower
6) Painted Trillium, Wild Lily of the Valley, Flowering Wintergreen
7) Arrow-head, Great Lobelia, Cardinal Flower
8) False Foxglove, Turtlehead, Dragonhead
9) Showy Lady’s Slipper, Harebell, Wild Orange Lily
10) Pitcher Plant.
Illustrations taken from ‘Studies of Plant Life in Canada’ by Catharine Parr Traill.
Published 1906 by William Briggs.
Decorative Mount, The Cloisters
Medium: Walrus ivory (or whale tooth)The Cloisters Collection, 2015 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY