Saccolabium Veolaceum 05_09_23 complete with rapids and swamps

complete with rapids and swamps

are all that survives of the original surveyor's charts which became the source material for the larger manuscript maps composed by John Warner and William Mayo to establish the bounds of Sir Thomas Fairfax's claim to the Northern Neck area of the Potomac River in Virginia

Burden 237

Date: 1778

While Ross was able to provide a good account of the Eastern Bank of the River

Saccolabium Veolaceum 05_09_23 complete with rapids and swampsSertum orchidaceum, an album so titled of watercolour drawings of orchids. English, mid nineteenth century Watercolour drawings of orchids and flowering plants, captioned at foot HIGHLY ACCOMPLISHED LARGE SCALE WATERCOLOUR DRAWINGS. A pencil note on the fly leaf reads These drawings are thought to be done by the wife of MacFarlane the celebrated orchid painter (i. e. James Laird MacFarlane, 1836 1913). PROVENANCE: Samuel Williams Fuller (c. 1777 1857)