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[Yucca whipplei] / H.T.D. del., J.N. Fitch, lith. ; Vincent Brooks, Day & Son. Ltd. imp. – Vintage Print

[Yucca whipplei] / H.T.D. del., J.N. Fitch, lith. ; Vincent Brooks, Day & Son. Ltd. imp., [published 1899] — antique lithograph
[Yucca whipplei] / H.T.D. del., J.N. Fitch, lith. ; Vincent Brooks, Day & Son. Ltd. imp., [published 1899]. 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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A window into the past: [Yucca whipplei] / H.T.D. del., J.N. Fitch, lith. ; Vincent Brooks, Day & Son. Ltd. imp., preserved in this antique lithograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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[Yucca whipplei] / H.T.D. del., J.N. Fitch, lith. ; Vincent Brooks, Day & Son. Ltd. imp.

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Whipple's yucca, shown in this plate from *Curtis's Botanical Magazine*, grows on dry hillsides in southern California and northern Baja California. It sends up a dense, candle-like spike of white flowers above a rosette of stiff, sword-shaped leaves. The species is named for Amiel Weeks Whipple, an army officer who surveyed routes across the Southwest in the 1850s and collected plants along the way. Plates like this one were drawn from living or pressed specimens, transferred to stone for lithography, and colored by hand, a slow process that let publishers render plant form and color with care. This example appeared in volume 125 of the magazine, published in London in 1899.

Created / published[published 1899]
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, 1899, v. 125, pl. 7662.
SubjectsFlowers--1880-1890.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,159 × 1,457 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-218065

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