Laelia Anceps Mexico 08_03_23 Louis up the Missouri River

Louis up the Missouri River on the American Fur Company steamboat “Yellowstone

streams of American immigrants had begun to make their way west in wagon trains

A detailed and finely crafted depiction of Asia from 1680

and botanist of considerable note

Laelia Anceps Mexico 08_03_23 Louis up the Missouri RiverSertum 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)