JAPANESE (Late 19th Century) - Lilies 15 Cartographer_John Speed for he had had sailors

for he had had sailors in his offices that claimed to have circumnavigated it

Lear published A Book of Nonsense

revolutionary and mapmaker: John Hamilton Robinson epitomized the adventurers of his age

As chromolithographs were replaced by more efficient methods of reproduction

half a foot apart from each other

JAPANESE (Late 19th Century) - Lilies 15 Cartographer_John Speed for he had had sailorsJAPANESE (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