JAPANESE (Late 19th Century) - Lilies 8 Region_New England This view is based on

This view is based on an inset that appeared in an earlier map of Quebec by Nicolas de Fer published in 1718

whose well known habit furnishes the natives with an easy mode of capturing him by means of a narrow pen

to create watercolors of the rare plants and exotic birds he had assembled in his garden at Blois and the Ménagerie at Versailles

Mercator's map of Asia

Paris: 1632

JAPANESE (Late 19th Century) - Lilies 8 Region_New England This view is based onJAPANESE (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