May 19, 2015 - Sale 2384

Sale 2384 - Lot 245

Price Realized: $ 4,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
(BOTANICAL--MUSHROOMS.) Bridgham, Joseph. Group of 47 proof plates and 10 original watercolors for W. G. Farlow's Icones Farlowianae. The proof plates comprise various-sized chromolithographs, ranging form large 4to to 8vo. Eight watercolors on folio Bristol Board, with two smaller studies, one signed "J Bridgham". [First Quarter 20th century]
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William Gilson Farlow was Professor of Botany at Harvard University, and Icones Farlowianae, covering the fungi of North America, was among his most important projects. It is said to have been an extremely expensive production and was carried on by some of his students upon his death.