Watson's Tiger Lily (Tigrida conchiflora var Watkinsoni); from Sir Joseph Paxton's The Magazine of Botany series.
Samuel Holden, English, active 1834 - 1849
1848
Hand colored lithograph on wove paper
Sheet: 9 × 6 1/4 in. (22.9 × 15.9 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of the Estate of Harold Goddard Rugg, Class of 1906
PR.957.210.2
Geography
Place Made: England, United Kingdom, Europe
Period
19th century
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
Inscribed, in plate, lower left: S. Holden, del & Lith.; center: Tigrida conchiflora var. Waykinsoni; inscribed, in graphite, lower left: 1848
Provenance
Collected by Harold Goddard Rugg (1883-1957, Class of 1906), Hanover, New Hampshire; given by his Estate to present collection, 1957.
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