Pencil drawing with detail in oil. Most of the sheet is occupied with a study of a tropical plant, readily identifiable (though not labeled) as "Heliconia wagneriana", a species in Panama from which hummingbirds feed. The plant is drawn in pencil, with leaves all labeled A-E, while the flowering center of the plant is painted in green, yellow, a...
Pencil drawing with detail in oil. Most of the sheet is occupied with a study of a tropical plant, readily identifiable (though not labeled) as "Heliconia wagneriana", a species in Panama from which hummingbirds feed. The plant is drawn in pencil, with leaves all labeled A-E, while the flowering center of the plant is painted in green, yellow, a...
Pencil drawing of a stand of trees, ferns, and other plants growing in and amidst foreground water. Lily pads and water lilies float on the water's surface. Jaques used this preparatory drawing for the background of Arthur H. Howell, "Florida Bird Life" (1932), plate 51, "Thrushes and Water-Thrushes."
Scratchboard illustration of plants with snow on them. Large foreground plants might be pussy willows with snow. Background plants are several of the same species.
