Victoria_regia_–_William_Sharp.jpg

Description

"Victoria regia" William Sharp Chromolithograph from John Fisk Allen (1807-1876) Victoria regia; or the Great Water Lily of America. . . Boston: for the author by Dutton and Wentworth, 1854 One of six large portraits of the species by the same artist.

The gigantic water lily from South America, now Victoria amazonica . Chromolithograph, hand-coloured
Date before 1850
date QS:P,+1850-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1326,+1850-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Source Victoria regia . Hooker reporduced at LuEsther T. Mertz Library .
Author
William Sharp (1803–1875) wikidata:Q8018327
Description American lithographer and printmaker
Date of birth/death 1803 Edit this at Wikidata 1875 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Ramsey United States of America
Work location
London ; Boston Edit this at Wikidata
Authority file
creator QS:P170,Q8018327
Permission
( Reusing this file )

The website states that: All images are the property of the LuEsther T. Mertz Library of The New York Botanical Garden. ... but this must be their little joke. It is not, because:

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