S. Gower - Hand Coloured 1924 Lithograph Impala Lily

Description

Image from Flowering Plants of South Africa vol. 4 1924. Comes with corresponding page of text from the book
In good condition
del S. Gower
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Size: 22 x 15cm (8.7" x 5.9")

Collection Information

Lord Francis Leveson-Gower (1800-1857, later became Francis Egerton, 1st Earl of Ellesmere) was a British politician, writer, traveller and patron of the arts. Ellesmere Island, a major island (10th in size among global islands) in Nunavut, the Canadian Arctic, was named after him. He served as president of the Royal Geographical Society and as president of the Royal Asiatic Society (1849–1852), and he was a trustee of the National Gallery. He also initiated the collection of the National Portrait Gallery, by donating the Chandos portrait of Shakespeare. Sulis Fine Art historian Olivia Nicholls has written an Artist Spotlight piece on Lord Francis Leveson-Gower which can be read here

Mostly stuck down, some are signed, the album approx. 38 x 29 cm overall. Provenance: Leveson-Gower, thence by descent, Egerton

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