1897 Vibrant Botanical Prints – Baby Blue Eyes, Cherry Pie and Blue Eyed Mary

1897 · Birds, Plants & Natural History

1897 Vibrant Botanical Prints – Baby Blue Eyes, Cherry Pie and Blue Eyed Mary

Name: 1897 Vibrant Botanical Prints – Baby Blue Eyes, Cherry Pie and Blue Eyed Mary
Brand: American Maps and Prints
SKU: BG-13692-3-36
Price: 380 USD
Availability: InStock

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Date: 1897
Kind: Birds, Plants & Natural History
Size: 24 × 15.5 cm (9.4 × 6.1 in)
Condition: Good. These 1897 botanical printa are well-preserved with vibrant colors, minimal edge yellowing, and crisp details, making them stunning pieces for display or collection.
Period: The Gilded Age
Reference: BG-13692-3-36

What the condition grades mean

Excellent: Bright and clean, with no faults worth mentioning.
Very good: Only light signs of age, such as faint toning.
Good: Normal signs of age for a sheet of this period: toning, some foxing, small marks or neat old repairs.
Fair: Clear faults such as staining, tears or repairs, priced to match.

Every fault we see is written in the condition note, and the whole sheet is shown uncropped in the photos.

Guaranteed original. This is an original of the period stated, not a later reproduction or print-on-demand copy. If it is ever shown to be otherwise, we refund you in full.

Shipping to the United States. Sent from our gallery in Langweer, the Netherlands, flat between boards or rolled in a tube, and fully insured. Delivery and import charges.

About this piece

Three plates from Favorite Flowers of Garden and Greenhouse, 1897: Nemophila insignis, cherry pie (Heliotropium peruvianum) and Venus' navelwort (Omphalodes verna). The set is original color-printed lithographs, each on its own sheet, lettered below the image with the plant name, its Latin name where given, and "Nat. size."

The first plate shows Nemophila insignis, the baby blue eyes of California, in a feathery stem with deeply cut leaves and pale blue flowers with white centers, with a brown seed and a young seedling drawn beside it. The second shows cherry pie, the garden heliotrope, in dense heads of lilac-purple flowers above broad, deeply veined green leaves, with a single flower and a section of the bloom drawn at the upper right and lower left. The third shows Venus' navelwort in a low tuft of green leaves with small blue flowers, the roots shown in white at the base and two enlarged flowers beside it.

Heliotropium peruvianum comes from Peru, and Nemophila insignis from California, while Omphalodes verna is a European groundcover.

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