JAPANESE (Late 19th Century) - Lilies 15 Cartographer_John Speed Stevens & Tree 79(e)

Stevens & Tree 79(e)

Signs of damp-stain to the left-hand portion of the fourth part and to the right-hand portion of the second part

that the work was a joint stock speculation

It started to appear on portolan charts in the fourteenth century and continued to be a stalwart of maps and charts into the nineteenth century

JAPANESE (Late 19th Century) - Lilies 15 Cartographer_John Speed Stevens & Tree 79(e)JAPANESE (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