JAPANESE (Late 19th Century) - Lilies 20 Cartographer_John Ross containing a huge variety of

containing a huge variety of European shrubs and flowering plants

Hand-colored lithographs with gum arabic metallic detailing

He created the bird first

and monkeys and a rhinoceros

The Redeyed Flycatcher Myscieapa Chivacea July 5 1845

JAPANESE (Late 19th Century) - Lilies 20 Cartographer_John Ross containing a huge variety ofJAPANESE (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