Victoria Regia Water Lily Set

This box of twelve notecards has three each of four images reproduced from nineteenth-century chromolithographs by William Sharp for a book that chronicles the attempts to propogate the giant Victoria regia, otherwise known as the great water lily of America. The set features Intermediate Stages of Bloom, Opening Flower, Complete Bloom, and View of the Form.

Featured in the exhibit Nature Bound: Illustrated Botanical Books