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Victoria Regia: The First Two Cycles of the Growth of the Lily
Designed by: John Fisk Allen (1785–1865)
Lithographer: William Sharp (American (born in England), 1803–1875)
Printed by: Sharp and Son Chromolithography, Dorchester, Mass.
Publisher: Dutton and Wentworth, Boston
Lithographer: William Sharp (American (born in England), 1803–1875)
Printed by: Sharp and Son Chromolithography, Dorchester, Mass.
Publisher: Dutton and Wentworth, Boston
1854
Medium/Technique
Chromolithograph
Dimensions
Image: 38.6 x 53.6 cm (15 3/16 x 21 1/8 in.)
Sheet: 56 x 74 cm (22 1/16 x 29 1/8 in.)
Sheet: 56 x 74 cm (22 1/16 x 29 1/8 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Charles D. Childs
Accession Number48.56a
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsPrints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Nissen 0016
DescriptionChromolithography by William Sharp. Plate 1 of John Fisk Allen's 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.
ProvenanceCharles D. Childs, Boston, MA, by whom given 1/8/1948