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[Cereus giganteus] / M.S. del., J.N. Fitch, lith. ; Vincent Brooks, Day & Son. imp. – Antique Print

[Cereus giganteus] / M.S. del., J.N. Fitch, lith. ; Vincent Brooks, Day & Son. imp., [published 1892] — antique lithograph
[Cereus giganteus] / M.S. del., J.N. Fitch, lith. ; Vincent Brooks, Day & Son. imp., [published 1892]. 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 [Cereus giganteus] / M.S. del., J.N. Fitch, 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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[Cereus giganteus] / M.S. del., J.N. Fitch, lith. ; Vincent Brooks, Day & Son. imp.

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This plate shows the saguaro, a towering columnar cactus of the Sonoran Desert in Arizona and northwestern Mexico, which the record lists under its older name, *Cereus giganteus*. It appeared in *Curtis's Botanical Magazine* in 1892, a monthly journal that had been publishing hand-colored plant portraits since the late 1700s. The drawing is credited to "M.S." and was lithographed by J.N. Fitch and printed by Vincent Brooks, Day & Son, a London firm known for color plate work. Botanical plates like this one were meant to record a plant's form accurately for scientists and gardeners who would never see it in the wild.

Created / published[published 1892]
Medium1 print : lithograph, hand-colored.
GenrePeriodical illustrations 1890-1900.Botanical illustrations 1890-1900.Lithographs Hand-colored 1890-1900.
NotesIllus. in: Curtis's Botanical magazine / London : Reeve Brothers, 1892, v. 118, pl. 7222.
SubjectsFlowers--1880-1890.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,158 × 1,473 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-218063

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