HERE is a portfolio of water colour sketches of plants by Helen Sharp.
Background information from HERE:
Eighteen albums of water-color sketches by Helen Sharp of flowering
plants and shrubs common to the United States, especially New England,
as well as to Bermuda and parts of Europe, dated between June 1888 and
Sept. 1910. Sketches in water-color and ink on paper (26 x 18 cm. or
smaller) include botanical captions in Latin, along with Sharp's notes
on the common name and physical characteristics of each plant, and
location and date of drawing. There is also a table of contents at the
front of each sketchbook. The first 16 albums contain sketches of plants
common in New England, in towns of Massachusetts such as Nantucket,
Taunton, Boston, No. Andover, Marblehead, Hingham, Gloucester; Maine
(York, Sorrento); New Hampshire (Surrey), and Connecticut. Volume 17
contains sketches of plants made by the artist while traveling in
Switzerland, Italy, England, and France, while v. 18 contains sketches
of tropical fruits and flowers of Bermuda, completed during Sharp's
visits of 1892, 1893, and 1903.
Below is a Solomons Seal (Polygonatum biflorum) painted by Sharp in Taunton Massachusetts, September 21st 1899 .
