Cardinal Flower (Background- Outlet of Fishkill Creek)

by Whitefield, Edwin

$250 · Offered by Biblio

New York: D. Appleton & Co, 1845. Very good condition. View of the river just south of Beacon, NY, with New Windsor visible on the opposite shore, with the "Schonemock" (Shawanagunks) in the distance. Lithograph with the flowers hand colored; the view in black & white. From "American Wild Flowers in their Native Haunts" by Emma C. Embury, Drawn and colored from nature by Edwin Whitefield. Whitefield's lithographs were printed by Lewis & Brown, one of the very early firms to produce chromolithographic illustrations for books. Image approximately 6 x 7" on paper 9 1/2 x 7"

• Publisher: D. Appleton & Co
• Year: 1845
• Binding: unknown

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