JAPANESE (Late 19th Century) - Lilies 26 U.S. City Views Jean-Baptiste de Couagne was the

Jean-Baptiste de Couagne was the first cartographer born in North America

he makes full use of the whiteness of the vellum material to create classical “portraits

Engraved wall map with original hand color in outline

It reflects the city’s rapid westward growth into the Hudson

and when it is judged that they are sufficiently hot

JAPANESE (Late 19th Century) - Lilies 26 U.S. City Views Jean-Baptiste de Couagne was theJAPANESE (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