publicdomainreview:One of six magnificent colour lithographs to be found in Victoria Regia, or, The
publicdomainreview:One of six magnificent colour lithographs to be found in Victoria Regia, or, The Great Water Lily of America (1854), a work by John Fisk Allen which documents the amateur botanist’s attempts to propagate the Amazon’s Victoria regia (now called Victoria amazonica) in the more northerly climes of his hometown of Salem, Massachusetts. The wonderfully lavish plates accompanying the slim volume — which according to Christies are the “very first colour-printed lithographs produced in America” — are the work of the pioneering British-born printer William Sharp. See the other five on our site, just click link in bio and search “lily”.....#waterlily #nature #art #botanical #illustration #botanicalillustration #lithography https://www.instagram.com/p/B0wbnrNHFxJ/?igshid=12ea0w1qpnie6 -- source link