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Watercolors

 
HOLLIS Number
Contributors
Prince, S. Fred
Publication
[Place of publication not identified]: [publisher not identified], [1934–1936]

Description

Digital Facsimile

20 unnumbered paintings : watercolor, color ; 40 cm

Title devised by Library staff.

Possibly from the author's The Rainbow in the grass : wildflowers of the Marvel Cave Ozarks. Lacking numbers are in the collections of the Oak Spring Garden library, Upperville, Virginia, and the Hunt Botanical Libray, a research division of Caregie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Watercolors signed at bottom right of image: S. Fred Prince.

Watercolors have below image in black ink pen the Latin name and the common name of the wild flower, the date (year/month), and artist's notes; wild flower image within plate mark.

Watercolors numbered on upper right corner of leaf recto in black ink pen; a pencil asterisk is at right of number.

Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212

 

Physical Description

Lib. has only plates: 98, 112, 116, 130, 131, 142, 156, 168, 169, 176, 187, 191, 195, 199, 204, 208, 210, 219, 222, and 225. Lib. copy: Each watercolor protected by tissue guardsheet. Lib. copy: Includes separate yellow-lined sheet (in mylar sleeve) with contents/list of plates, dated 6/9/65, and in upper right corner in pen: Logged. Lib. copy has on Dumbarton Oaks Research Library shelflist card, in pencil upper right: call number FR1-2B. Lib. copy has on Dumbarton Oaks Research Library shelflist card, in pencil: 20 @ 11" x 15 1/4".

 

Language

English
 

Subject

Wild flowers -- Ozark Mountains.; Wild flowers -- Ozark Mountains -- Identification.; Wild flowers -- Ozark Mountains -- Pictorial works.; Botanical illustration -- United States -- 20th century.