JAPANESE (Late 19th Century) - Lilies 3 Engraving 23" x 19 1/2"

23" x 19 1/2"

Watercolor for plate 479: “Belladonna Lily/ March Lily” Amaryllis pallidaPrepared for Les Liliacées ca

The stacks of grain put up in the field are resorted to by flocks of these birds

his wife Narcissa

It holds the distinction as the first great published collection of American views

JAPANESE (Late 19th Century) - Lilies 3 Engraving 23" x 19 1/2"JAPANESE (Late 19th Century) Lilies Woodblock print and finished by hand on pith laid down on heavier stock 17 x 10 sheet Provenance: Nevins Memorial Library, MA Beautiful hand colored woodcuts from a Japanese nursery catalogue produced by the Yokohama Nursery Company for the export market. The company was formed at the end of the nineteenth for the purpose of exporting Japanese plants to the West, capitalizing on the prevailing wave of Japonism. The