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[Delphinium nudicaule] / W. Fitch, del. et lith. ; Vincent Brooks, Day & Son., imp. – Vintage Wall Art

[Delphinium nudicaule] / W. Fitch, del. et lith. ; Vincent Brooks, Day & Son., imp., [published 1870] — antique lithograph
[Delphinium nudicaule] / W. Fitch, del. et lith. ; Vincent Brooks, Day & Son., imp., [published 1870]. Antique lithograph from the Flowers & Trees collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Step back in time with [Delphinium nudicaule] / W. Fitch, del. et lith. ; Vincent Brooks, Day & Son., imp., an antique lithograph rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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[Delphinium nudicaule] / W. Fitch, del. et lith. ; Vincent Brooks, Day & Son., imp.

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This plate shows *Delphinium nudicaule*, the red larkspur, a wildflower of California whose scarlet, tubular blooms set it apart from the blue and violet larkspurs most gardeners know. William Fitch drew the plant and Vincent Brooks, Day & Son printed it as a hand-colored lithograph for plate 5819 of *Curtis's Botanical Magazine* in 1870. That monthly journal, founded by William Curtis in 1787, paired exact images with botanical descriptions and was widely used by gardeners, nurserymen and scientists. Notice how the artist records the spurred flowers and divided leaves in enough detail for identification.

Created / published[published 1870]
Medium1 print : lithograph, hand-colored.
GenrePeriodical illustrations 1870.Botanical illustrations 1870.Lithographs Hand-colored 1870.
NotesIllus. in: Curtis's Botanical magazine / London : Reeve Brothers, 1870, v. 96, pl. 5819.
SubjectsFlowers--1870.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,142 × 1,473 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-218061

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