Album of pressed flowers

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Object Details

Subject

Powers, Louisa Greenough

Powers, Preston

Place of publication, production, or execution

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Physical Description

Item : 1 v. : various media ; 23 x 31 cm.

Summary

One bound album containing three pencil drawings by Preston Powers, watercolors of plants, handwritten poetry, and dried flowers. The dried flowers are arranged in patterns and annotated with the location where they were collected during travels in 1867.
The album may have belonged to Louisa Powers.

Citation

Album of pressed flowers, 1855-1867. Hiram Powers papers, 1819-1953. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Use Note

Current copyright status is undetermined

Location Note

Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution Washington, D.C. 20560

Date

1855-1867

Record number

(DSI-AAA)20793

Type

Albums

See more items in

Hiram Powers papers, 1819-1953, bulk 1835-1883

Data Source

Archives of American Art

Topic

Flowers (plants)

Metadata Usage

Usage conditions apply

Record ID

AAADCD_item_20793