Antique Botanical Lithographs – Caladium, Arum Lily & Flamingo Flower – c.1897

1897 · Birds, Plants & Natural History

Antique Botanical Lithographs – Caladium, Arum Lily & Flamingo Flower – c.1897

Name: Antique Botanical Lithographs – Caladium, Arum Lily & Flamingo Flower – c.1897
Brand: American Maps and Prints
SKU: BG-13692-4-67, -68, -69
Price: 380 USD
Availability: InStock

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Date: 1897
Kind: Birds, Plants & Natural History
Size: 24 × 15.9 cm (9.4 × 6.3 in)
Period: The Gilded Age
Reference: BG-13692-4-67, -68, -69

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 tropical foliage and flowering plants, late 19th-century botanical plates printed in color, shown here as a set of three sheets. The plants are Caladium bicolor, the Arum Lily (Richardia africana) and the Flamingo Flower (Anthurium scherzerianum).

The first plate shows Caladium with heart-shaped leaves marked in green, white and crimson veins, together with a few small flower details. The second shows the Arum Lily, a white spathe curled around a yellow spadix, with broad arrow-shaped leaves and small flower details. The third shows the Flamingo Flower, with glossy red spathes, a twisting orange spadix and a tuft of roots, with two small flower details at the lower right.

Caladium and Anthurium come from tropical Central and South America, while the Arum Lily is a native of southern Africa. All three were widely grown in the conservatories and glasshouses of the Victorian period, when new tropical plants were collected and sold across Europe.

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