Piristeria Elara Panama Frame:No Frame 29 ½ x 42 inches

29 ½ x 42 inches

Reiner & Joshua Ottens

Streeter saleVI:3621

a diamond-shaped ten-mile tract at the confluence of the Potomac and Eastern Branch Rivers

The explanatory cartouche set in the Pacific is identical to the Hondius original

Piristeria Elara Panama Frame:No Frame 29 ½ x 42 inchesSertum orchidaceum, an album so titled of watercolour drawings of orchids. English, mid nineteenth century Watercolour drawings of orchids and flowering plants, captioned at foot HIGHLY ACCOMPLISHED LARGE SCALE WATERCOLOUR DRAWINGS. A pencil note on the fly leaf reads These drawings are thought to be done by the wife of MacFarlane the celebrated orchid painter (i. e. James Laird MacFarlane, 1836 1913). PROVENANCE: Samuel Williams Fuller (c. 1777 1857)