Canadian wild flowers / painted and lithographed by Agnes Fitzgibbon ; with botanical descriptions by C.P. Traill ...

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fitzgibbon, Agnes, artist.

Traill, Catherine Parr Strickland, 1802-1899, author.

Contributor:

Lovell, John, 1810-1893, publisher, printer.

Caroline F. Schimmel Collection of Women in the American Wilderness (University of Pennsylvania)

Schimmel, Caroline F., donor, associated name.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Botany--Canada.

Botany.

Botany--Pictorial works.

Canada.

Genre:

Pictorial works.

Penn Provenance:

Schimmel, Caroline F. (donor) (Schimmel Collection copy)

Chapman, Horace, Mrs. (inscription) (Schimmel Collection copy)

Leith, Alma (autograph) (Schimmel Collection copy)

Physical Description:

86 pages, [10] leaves of plates : color illustrations ; 38 cm

Other Title:

Canadian wildflowers

Place of Publication:

Montreal : Printed and published by John Lovell, St Nicholas Street, 1868.

Summary:

"FitzGibbon ... drew the title and ten floral designs, one after the other, on the same borrowed stone. The Toronto firm William Chewett printed the lithographs. At home through much of 1867-68, she painted 5,000 sheets in 16 opaque colours, aided by her three daughters and two young women from a Toronto painting school for ladies operated by the wife of artist Hoppner Meyer. Meanwhile Traill wrote complementary text, finishing with the preface in December 1868. The first edition, bound in green or reddish-brown cloth, had an uncoloured 1868 title, 86 pages of text, and ten plates. It appeared in January 1869 and sold out by March."--Alexander Globe, "The Story of 'Canadian Wildflowers'" (2015).

Notes:

First edition, limited to 500 copies.

Title within floriated border.

Each lithographed plate is accompanied by a guardsheet.

Local Notes:

Schimmel Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2021 by Caroline F. Schimmel.

Schimmel Collection copy has dated 19th-century manuscript gift inscription ("Mrs. Horace Chapman, With kindest wishes form Alma Leith. August. 1872.") on front free endpaper.

Schimmel Collection copy has 3 tissue guards only, detached and laid in.

Cited in:

Lande, L.M. Lawrence Lande Coll., 1660.

Schimmel, C.F. OK, I'll do it myself (2nd ed., revised), 65

OCLC:

2687839