Format
airbrush, colored pencil, pen and ink on cream boardDigitization Status
DigitizedReproduction:
OriginalDimensions
71.3 cm W x 56 cm H (Item)
Extent
1 sheetDescription
Part of a series of numbered illustrations about the stages of pond growth. This material includes an aerial view of a pond showing some plants at the surface of its bay with trees and hills in background, and a cross-section view of aquatic plants attached to pond bottom, with leaves and flowers of shallower plants extended to water's surface.
Header: FLOATING-LEAF PLANT STAGE / PLANTS ATTACHED TO BOTTOM / leaves and flowers floating at surface
Drawings and text from top to bottom, left to right:
- pond and surrounding landscape
- cross-section [divided into 4 sections]:
- FLOATING LEAF ZONE
- SUBMERGED PLANT ZONE
- water weed
- eel grass
- pondweed
- hornwort
- water milfoil
- SUBMERGED PLANT STAGE
- FLOATING LEAF ZONE