JAPANESE (Late 19th Century) - Lilies 3 Frame:Gold papered horizon and 4 quadrant

papered horizon and 4 quadrant supports

This strikingly simple innovation greatly improved the identification of stars with the naked eye

published by Levrault Paris 1816

Redouté’s Choix des Plus Belles Fleurs is one of the artist’s last and most personal works

JAPANESE (Late 19th Century) - Lilies 3 Frame:Gold papered horizon and 4 quadrantJAPANESE (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