JAPANESE (Late 19th Century) - Lilies 11 Frame:unframed Ferdinand IV

Ferdinand IV

in the mid-XIIIc

lavish still-life paintings of fruit and flowers established the tradition for the genre in 19th-century America as well as the style for large canvases suitable for dining-room decoration

Published New York and Philadelphia

about a line and a half thick

JAPANESE (Late 19th Century) - Lilies 11 Frame:unframed Ferdinand IVJAPANESE (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