Aerida Purpura Frame:No Frame Young : Sherman & Smith

Young : Sherman & Smith

Woodcut double-cordiform world map

and indeed the status of reproductions as art

approx: 21 x 16 1/2 in

is unfinished

Aerida Purpura Frame:No Frame Young : Sherman & SmithSertum orchidaceum, an album so titled of watercolour drawings of orchids. English, mid nineteenth century Watercolour drawings of orchids and flowering plants, captioned at foot HIGHLY ACCOMPLISHED LARGE SCALE WATERCOLOUR DRAWINGS. A pencil note on the fly leaf reads These drawings are thought to be done by the wife of MacFarlane the celebrated orchid painter (i. e. James Laird MacFarlane, 1836 1913). PROVENANCE: Samuel Williams Fuller (c. 1777 1857)