Musa coccinea Cartographer_Martin Waldseemuller A testament to its popularity

A testament to its popularity

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he reworked the in-situ watercolors of frontier artist James Otto Lewis

Moran's daughter Ruth wrote the company that "it would have pleased my father

The first known maps to show California as an island were on the title pages of Antonio de Herrera’s Descripción de las Indias Occidentales (1622) and Jacob le Maire's Spieghel Der Australische Navigatie (1622)

Musa coccinea Cartographer_Martin Waldseemuller A testament to its popularitySertum 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)