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Victoria Regia: Underside of the Leaf
Author: John Fisk Allen (1785–1865)
Designed by: William Sharp (American (born in England), 1803–1875)
Lithographer: Sharp and Son Chromolithography, Dorchester, Mass.
Designed by: William Sharp (American (born in England), 1803–1875)
Lithographer: Sharp and Son Chromolithography, Dorchester, Mass.
1854
Medium/Technique
Chromolithograph
Dimensions
Sheet: 56 x 74 cm (22 1/16 x 29 1/8 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Charles D. Childs
Accession Number48.58
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAmericas, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Nissen 0016
DescriptionDesign and chromolithography by William Sharp. Plate 3 of John Fisk Allen (American, 1785–1865), Victoria Regia, or the Great Water Lily of America. With a Brief Account of Its Discovery and Introduction into Cultivation: With Illustrations by William Sharp from Specimens Grown at Salem, Massachusetts, U. S. A. Published by Dutton & Wentworth, Boston.
ProvenanceCharles D. Childs, Boston, MA, by whom given 1/8/1948