A SET OF TEN BOTANICAL AND MYCOLOGICAL WATERCOLOURS BY THOMAS HAWKES RUSSELL, (1851-1913) painted 'en grisaille', titled, dated and signed with initials verso, in card mounts (10) 18.4 x 12.7cm Provenance 'A Lifetime of Collecting' - The Property of a Gentleman. Catalogue Note Thomas Hawkes Russell (1851-1913) was a solicitor, author and artist, a member of the Moss Exchange Club and British Bryological Society who wrote 'Mosses and Liverworts, An Introduction to Their Study, with Hints as to Their Collection and Preservation', published in 1908. Titles include willow, Mountain Ash, Campylopus setifolius, liverworts Scapania nemorosa and sphacelate, sallow salixcaprea, moss capsule peristome and lesser dodder cuscuta epithymum.

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