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This collection includes all 5 volumes of the Smithsonian portfolio. Most prints have Mary's initial, the print number and the date. A few don't have the date. My scanner will not acomadate the full print with the margin, so I'm scanning just the print. Letterpress or offset lithograph. Sheet size is approx. 9¼ x 12 3/8 inches. Faux plate mark is at ca. 6 3/4 x 9¾.

All 400 prints will be listed separately on ebay over the next couple of weeks. All auction will start at $14.99 and be sold with No Reserve. All guaranteed authentic and Not Reproductions! Please check my auction page every couple of days to see the new listings. Safe Priority Shipping in the lower 48 states will cost $6.50.... I WILL COMBINE SHIPPING FOR ANY PRINTS WON OVER A 10 DAY PERIOD FOR THE SAME FEE.

Print # 181, " Purple Mountain Violet ". Printed on the lower left corner: # 181 date of 1925 and Mary 's Initials. CONDITION: Plate has "Minor" edge toning & wear. No foxing anywhere. Clean & Bright.

HISTORY

During her early years, on family summer vacations to the Rockies, Mary Vaux developed into an accomplished amateur botanist, watercolorist, and mountaineer. Her wildflower publication was to become "the Audubon of Botany," and a 10,000-ft. peak in Jasper Park was named for her. After she married Dr. Charles D. Walcott, a noted geologist and Secretary of the Smithsonian, she accompanied him on his field trips. "This afforded her a wonderful opportunity for intimate study of the flora. She typically sketched while the pack-trains were stopped or being made ready, often warming her hands first by a small fire, and then finished the beautiful watercolors once back home in the East. Because of the short and tentative season of the wildflowers, and the often inhospitable locations on mountainsides, this endeavor occupied many seasons and arduous trips.

"As time went on and the collection grew, botanists, artists, and others interested in flowers began to urge that the water-color sketches should be permanently preserved and made available for students and lovers of the beautiful in Nature, before the dust of time faded and browned them to the hues of the pressed flowers of the herbaria." The result was the publication in 1925 of these astonishing volumes containing over 400 colored lithographic prints. Indeed, they deserve to be called "the Audubon of Botany."

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