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L'Illustration horticole; revue mensuelle des serres et des jardins; volume 21
1874
Medium/Technique
Illustrated book
Dimensions
Overall: 26.6 x 18.4 x 3.4 cm (10 1/2 x 7 1/4 x 1 5/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of the heirs of Bettina Looram de Rothschild
Accession Number2015.91.5
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsPrints and Drawings
ClassificationsIllustrated books
Description(Ghent: Imprimerie et lithographie de F. et E. Gyselnyck, 1874)
Provenance1938, Alphonse de Rothschild (b. 1878 - d. 1942) and Clarice de Rothschild (b. 1894 - d. 1967), Vienna; 1938, confiscated from Alphonse and Clarice de Rothschild by Nazi forces [see note 1]; probably about 1948, returned to Clarice de Rothschild, New York; by descent to her daughter, Bettina Looram de Rothschild (b. 1924 - d. 2012); about 1990/1992, given by Bettina Looram de Rothschild to members of her family; 2015, gift of the heirs of Bettina Looram de Rothschild to the MFA. (Accession Date: February 25, 2015)
NOTES:
[1] With the Anschluss, or annexation of Austria to Nazi Germany in March, 1938, the possessions of Alphonse and Clarice de Rothschild were seized and expropriated almost immediately by Nazi forces. This book bears a label from the library at Hohe Warte (Vienna), where the Rothschild family maintained a residence and extensive gardens. The precise fate of the book during the Nazi era is not known, but it was in the possession of Clarice de Rothschild again following World War II.
NOTES:
[1] With the Anschluss, or annexation of Austria to Nazi Germany in March, 1938, the possessions of Alphonse and Clarice de Rothschild were seized and expropriated almost immediately by Nazi forces. This book bears a label from the library at Hohe Warte (Vienna), where the Rothschild family maintained a residence and extensive gardens. The precise fate of the book during the Nazi era is not known, but it was in the possession of Clarice de Rothschild again following World War II.