Delightfully Strange Finds & Designs
Jacksonville, FL
Details
- Dimensions
- 9.25ʺW × 1ʺD × 12.5ʺH
- Frame Type
- Unframed
- Art Subjects
- Botanic
- Still Life
- Period
- 1960s
- Country of Origin
- United States
- Item Type
- Vintage, Antique or Pre-owned
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- Materials
- Paper
- Pine
- Plastic
- Watercolor
- Condition
- Good Condition, Original Condition Unaltered, Some Imperfections
- Color
- Dark Green
- Condition Notes
- Overall good condition, with some yellowing and foxing consistant with age. Beautiful prints. Please review photos closely before purchase. Overall good condition, with some yellowing and foxing consistant with age. Beautiful prints. Please review photos closely before purchase. less
- Description
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This set of 6 lovely vintage Smithsonian's Botanical Prints by Mary Vaux Walcott featuring Pine tree, Conifers including the original …
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This set of 6 lovely vintage Smithsonian's Botanical Prints by Mary Vaux Walcott featuring Pine tree, Conifers including the original 1925 print's description by the author and make a delightful grouping for any room.
Each unframed print is 12.5" x 9.25" is stored individually in resealable plastic bags with a hard cardstock and the original author's description of the plant.
Prints include:
16. Hazel Alder. Aldus rugosa, (DU ROI) SPRENGEL
18. Alpine Fir. Abies lasiocarpa, (HOOKER), NUTALL
86. Mountain Juniper. Juniperus sibirica, BURGSDORF
186. Western Green Alder. Sinuata, (REGEL) RYDBERG
187. Giant Arborvitae. Thuja plicata, DON
188. Limber Pine. Pinus flexilis, JAMES
Please review shop for other original botanical prints from this same collection.
Overall good condition, with some yellowing and foxing consistant with age. Beautiful prints.
Please review photos closely before purchase.
FROM: North American Wild Flowers
By Mary Vaux Walcott, (1860-1940)
Originally printed by the Smithsonian Institute in 1925 in 5 volumes.
Original descriptive text (or photocopy) accompanies print.
During Mary Vaux Walcott’s early years, on family summer vacations to the Rockies, Mary Vaux (rhymes with fox) developed into an accomplished amateur botanist, watercolorist, and mountaineer. Her wildflower publication was to become "the Audubon of Botany," and a 10,000-ft. peak in Jasper Park was named for her. After she married Dr. Charles D. Walcott, a noted geologist and Secretary of the Smithsonian, she accompanied him on his field trips. "This afforded me a wonderful opportunity for intimate study of the flora, my aim being to collect and paint the finest specimens obtainable, and to depict the natural grace and beauty of the plant without conventional design." She typically sketched while the pack-trains were stopped or being made ready, often warming her hands first by a small fire, and then finished the beautiful watercolors once back home in the East. Because of the short and tentative season of the wildflowers, and the often inhospitable locations on mountainsides, this endeavor occupied many seasons and arduous trips.
"As time went on and the collection grew, botanists, artists, and others interested in flowers began to urge that the water-color sketches should be permanently preserved and made available for students and lovers of the beautiful in Nature, before the dust of time faded and browned them to the hues of the pressed flowers of the herbaria." The result was the publication in 1925 of these astonishing volumes containing over 400 colored lithographic prints. Indeed, they deserve to be called "the Audubon of Botany." less
Delightfully Strange Finds & Designs
Jacksonville, FL
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