JAPANESE (Late 19th Century) - Lilies 27 12/17/20 on the two side borders

on the two side borders are strips containing ten miniatures exhibiting the dress of Indigenous peoples from the Arctic to Patagonia

The head and upper part of the neck are bare

both immediately and in the decades to follow

natural features

Persac (lower right)

JAPANESE (Late 19th Century) - Lilies 27 12/17/20 on the two side bordersJAPANESE (Late 19th Century) Lilies Woodblock print and finished by hand on pith laid down on heavier stock 17 x 10 sheet Provenance: Nevins Memorial Library, MA Beautiful hand colored woodcuts from a Japanese nursery catalogue produced by the Yokohama Nursery Company for the export market. The company was formed at the end of the nineteenth for the purpose of exporting Japanese plants to the West, capitalizing on the prevailing wave of Japonism. The