Antique Flower Print of the Senna Marilandica, 1879

1879 · Birds, Plants & Natural History

Antique Flower Print of the Senna Marilandica, 1879

Name: Antique Flower Print of the Senna Marilandica, 1879
Brand: American Maps and Prints
SKU: BG-01500
Price: 125 USD
Availability: InStock

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Date: 1879
Kind: Birds, Plants & Natural History
Size: 31 × 23.5 cm (12.2 × 9.3 in)
Condition: Fair. /good, general age-related toning. Minor wear, blank verso. Please study image carefully.
Period: The Gilded Age
Reference: BG-01500

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

Maryland senna, a North American wild flower, in a color lithograph titled "Cassia Marylandica" (Senna marilandica), from the Dutch work Nederlandsche flora en pomona, published in 1879 and lithographed by G. Severeyns after drawings by A.J. Wendel. The printer's credit "Groningen, J.B. Wolters" appears at the foot of the sheet.

The plate shows a flowering stem rising from the base with long pinnate leaves of many narrow leaflets, and clusters of bright yellow flowers with darker brown anthers at the top and along the stem. Two detached flowers are drawn separately at the lower left and right corners, showing the five spreading petals and the central stamens in detail. The whole plant is set on a tinted ground without any background.

Senna marilandica is also called Maryland wild senna, a perennial native to the eastern United States, and its leaflets were used in traditional medicine as a laxative. The plate is a good example of the late nineteenth century Dutch botanical lithograph.

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