Native US Flora - Six Original Botanical Chromolithograps, 1879

1879 · Birds, Plants & Natural History

Native US Flora - Six Original Botanical Chromolithograps, 1879

Name: Native US Flora - Six Original Botanical Chromolithograps, 1879
Brand: American Maps and Prints
SKU: BG-12277-1-1
Price: 670 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.
Period: The Gilded Age
Reference: BG-12277-1-1

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

Six 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 plate is a full-color chromolithograph on its own sheet, with the volume and plate number at the top and the Latin name lettered below the plant.

The plates show a purple-flowered spiderwort with its long grass-like leaves, a nodding red-flowered plant with finely cut leaves and a feathery seed head, a branch of yellow trumpet-shaped flowers, a fern with the rows of spore cases on the underside of its fronds, a group of violets with purple blooms, and a wood anemone with white flowers. Each plant is drawn with its roots and, in several cases, enlarged details of the flower or seed beside it.

Prang was the Boston firm that was best known for color printing in America. The set of plates is offered as six separate sheets, each carrying its own plate lettering.

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