Pescatorea Lehmanni

Date1882

Mediumlithograph on paper

Dimensions10 1/8 × 7 inches (25.7 × 17.8 cm)

Credit LineBequest of H.J. Lutcher Stark, 1965

Object number11.69.4.BQ.2_Pescatorea Lehmanni

ClassificationsDocumentary Artifacts

DescriptionThis page is bound in Volume 29, Issue 12.

Label TextLutcher owned a set of L’Illustration Horticole, a French language journal. His set dates from 1854 to 1893. This print illustrates two types of collecting. In the nineteenth century collectors sought rare and exotic plants. Orchid hunters went to South America to find new specimens. F. C. Lehmann found this beautiful orchid. L’Illustration Horticole printed an image of the plant. People valued the journal’s elegant prints. They too were collectible.

ProvenancePurchased May 9, 1951 through (Export Book Co., Lancashire, England) with (Robert O. Rubel, Jr., Crichton, Alabama) as agent by H.J. Lutcher Stark [1887-1965]; bequeathed September 2, 1965 to the Nelda C. and H.J. Lutcher Stark Foundation; accessioned to the Stark Museum of Art

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