Musa coccinea Frame:Gray Frame - Museum Quality Glass London: 1651

London: 1651

where he figures as the writer and illustrator of a short history of Laudonniere’s attempt between 1564 and 1565 to establish a Huguenot settlement in Florida

This is in many ways an extraordinary map

Diameter 7 in

Rappahannock

Musa coccinea Frame:Gray Frame - Museum Quality Glass London: 1651Sertum 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)