Lilium washingtonianum var purpureum, by H. J. Elwes Monnoyer It was an ambitious project

It was an ambitious project to catalog all known natural species in the world

a widely traveled naturalist explorer who first became interested in lilies on a trip to the Himalayas

Today these catalogs are the best record of what our fathers and grandfathers considered to be the well-dressed man

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Although the artists were not identified

Lilium washingtonianum var purpureum, by H. J. Elwes Monnoyer It was an ambitious projectTHE VICTORIAN ERA H. J. Elwes (1846 1922), a widely traveled naturalist explorer who first became interested in lilies on a trip to the Himalayas. His folio, "A Monograph of the Genus Lilium" was issued on several stages between 1877 and 1880. The plates were drawn by H. J. Elwes, Lilian Snelling and Margaret Stones. H. J. Elwes wrote the text which included all known lilies at that time. The original folios were primarily hand colored lithographs