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32 pages, 12 aquatint plates, red leather back, boards. Printed label on the front cover. 1: Shade and Colours, 2: Outline of Leaves, 3: Finished Leaves, 4: Dead colouring of leaves, 5: Finished Leaves, 6: Jonquils, 7: Carnation, 8: Apple, 9: Moss Rose, 10: Tulip, 11: Auricula, 12: Group of Flowers.
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Title: A Series of Progressive Lessons Intended to Elucidate the Art of Flower Painting in Water Colours
Author:
Written and aquatinted by John Hill (American (born England), London 1770–1850 Clarksville, New York)
Illustrator:
Possibly after Louis François Thomas Francia (French, Calais 1772–1839 Calais (active England))
Publisher:
M. Thomas (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
Printer:
James Maxwell (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
Date: 1818
Medium: Illustrations: aquatints, some hand colored
Dimensions: 11 x 8 7/8 in. (27.9 x 22.5 cm)
Classification: Books
Credit Line: Gift of Carl W. Drepperd, 1954
Accession Number: 54.553.1
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