JAPANESE (Late 19th Century) - Lilies 26 U.S. City Views It served as a practical

It served as a practical navigational tool during a time of renewed British-American tensions leading up to the War of 1812

14 3/8 x 20 inches

Jean-Baptiste de Couagne was the first cartographer born in North America

he makes full use of the whiteness of the vellum material to create classical “portraits

the forests of the north

JAPANESE (Late 19th Century) - Lilies 26 U.S. City Views It served as a practicalJAPANESE (Late 19th Century) Lilies Woodblock print and finished by hand on pith laid down on heavier stock 17 x 10 sheet Provenance: Nevins Memorial Library, MA Beautiful hand colored woodcuts from a Japanese nursery catalogue produced by the Yokohama Nursery Company for the export market. The company was formed at the end of the nineteenth for the purpose of exporting Japanese plants to the West, capitalizing on the prevailing wave of Japonism. The