JAPANESE (Late 19th Century) - Lilies 7 Botanical Prints 1533-1588) f

1533-1588) f

Montes Ignivomos

Height 17 in

The composition presents a measured procession of mounted travelers and pack animals traversing an expansive terrain

presumably its place in a composite atlas)

JAPANESE (Late 19th Century) - Lilies 7 Botanical Prints 1533-1588) fJAPANESE (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