Native US Flora - Four Original Botanical Chromolithograps, 1879

1879 · Birds, Plants & Natural History

Native US Flora - Four Original Botanical Chromolithograps, 1879

Name: Native US Flora - Four Original Botanical Chromolithograps, 1879
Brand: American Maps and Prints
SKU: BG-12277-1-7, 8, 9, 10
Price: 390 USD
Availability: InStock

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Date: 1879
Kind: Birds, Plants & Natural History
Size: 25 × 18 cm (9.8 × 7.1 in)
Condition: Good. Good condition. Please study the images carefully. Minor toning due to age and handling. Ideal for framing, ideally frames with a dark, muted brown color. In one image attached you can see a visualization. We do not supply the frames, only the prints.
Period: The Gilded Age
Reference: BG-12277-1-7, 8, 9, 10

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

Four botanical chromolithographs of North American wild plants, from Thomas Meehan's The Native Flowers and Ferns of the United States in Their Botanical, Horticultural, and Popular Aspects, published by L. Prang and Company of Boston in 1879. Each is a full-color plate on its own sheet, with the volume and plate number at the top and the Latin name lettered below.

The four plates are lettered Aquilegia chrysantha, a yellow columbine with its spurred flowers; Pachysandra procumbens, the Allegheny spurge, with mottled leaves and a pale spike of flowers; Helonias bullata, the swamp pink, with a dense head of pink flowers on a leafless stem beside its rosette of leaves; and Carex stricta, a tufted sedge with narrow leaves and brown seed spikes. The plants are shown with their roots, and small numbered details of the flower or seed are drawn beside several of them.

The work was issued by Prang, the Boston firm that was among the best-known American color printers of its day, and its plates range from showy wildflowers to sedges.

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