Jacques le Moyne de Morgues (French, ca. 1533-1588). Sweet Violet and butterfly. Bird Type_Herons of the upper parts ovato-elliptical

of the upper parts ovato-elliptical

Littig & Company commissioned the accomplished artist Richard Rummell (1848-1924) to create watercolors of some of the nations most prestigious colleges

and were likely responsible with the coinage of America and a description of the New World

extending from the Canary Islands in the West to China in the East (though not quite to the Pacific)

Jacques le Moyne de Morgues (French, ca. 1533-1588). Sweet Violet and butterfly. Bird Type_Herons of the upper parts ovato-ellipticalJACQUES LE MOYNE DE MORGUES (FRENCH, CA. 1533 1588) f. 2: Sweet Violet and butterfly Watercolor and gouache on paper prepared as vellum ca. 1565 Paper size: 7 1 2 x 5 5 8 in Frame size: 16 1 4 x 14 1 4 in Provenance: DuMarry (from the inscription on the frontispiece) The extraordinary career and oeuvre of the Huguenot artist Jacques Le Moyne de Morgues have only relatively recently been defined and described (see Paul Hulton, The Work of Jacques Le