Album of pressed flowers
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
- 1855-1867
- Record number
- (DSI-AAA)20793
- Type
- Albums
- See more items in
- Hiram Powers papers, 1819-1953, bulk 1835-1883
- Archives of American Art
- Topic
- Flowers (plants)
- Record ID
- AAADCD_item_20793
- Metadata Usage (text)
- Usage conditions apply
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