Wild Flowers, chromolithograph of flowers with a swallowtail butterfly – Antique Wall Art
(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
Description
A window into the past: Wild Flowers, chromolithograph of flowers with a swallowtail butterfly, preserved in this antique lithograph. It comes from the Snapshots of the Past collection, curated over 25 years for its historical value.
Order it framed and ready to hang, or unframed to match a frame you already love. A conversation-starting piece for home, office, or as a meaningful gift. Free shipping in the lower 48 states. Snapshots of the Past has been bringing history to the wall since 2001, for tens of thousands of customers worldwide.
Wild Flowers, chromolithograph of flowers with a swallowtail butterfly
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Few botanical prints of the nineteenth century pair a flower study with an insect quite as directly as this chromolithograph does, placing a swallowtail butterfly among its blossoms. Chromolithography, which built a picture from many successive stone or metal plates, each printed in a different color, let publishers reproduce delicate watercolor-like effects in affordable runs. Prints of this kind were popular in parlors and schoolrooms, where they doubled as decoration and as a gentle introduction to natural history. The swallowtail, with its tailed hindwings, is a favorite subject for such images because its bright markings and graceful shape reward close looking.
| Original scan | 1,057 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | 2. 3b47927_ |
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