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Thomas Meehan Chromolithograph - Gaillardia Amblyodon (Maroon blanketflower)
Estimate:
$50 - $100
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$25
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Arader Galleries July 2024 Online Auction
Description
MEEHAN, Thomas (19th Century).
Gaillardia Amblyodon (Maroon blanketflower), Plate 46.
Chromolithograph.
From the Native Flowers and Ferns of the United States...
Boston: L. Prang and Company, 1880.
Approximately 10" x 7" sheet.
Meehan was an Englishman, trained at Kew, who moved to Germantown, Pennsylvania in 1853, where he spent the rest of his life running a nursery and editing various gardening periodicals. This is his masterwork, and one of the leading authorities on ferns in America. It is also a notable 19th-century American color plate book, issued by Prang of Boston, the leading chromolithographer of the period.
Gaillardia Amblyodon (Maroon blanketflower), Plate 46.
Chromolithograph.
From the Native Flowers and Ferns of the United States...
Boston: L. Prang and Company, 1880.
Approximately 10" x 7" sheet.
Meehan was an Englishman, trained at Kew, who moved to Germantown, Pennsylvania in 1853, where he spent the rest of his life running a nursery and editing various gardening periodicals. This is his masterwork, and one of the leading authorities on ferns in America. It is also a notable 19th-century American color plate book, issued by Prang of Boston, the leading chromolithographer of the period.
