Aerida Purpura Cartographer_Pierre Francois Xavier de Charlevoix The two native scenes shown

The two native scenes shown are taken from illustrations in the book

Pierre-Joseph Redouté (Belgian

THE FIRST ACCURATE AND DETAILED SURVEY OF THE POTOMAC RIVER

Plate CIII

1818 – 1830)

Aerida Purpura Cartographer_Pierre Francois Xavier de Charlevoix The two native scenes shownSertum 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)