• Cacti & desert shrubs of the Gila, figs 9–15—Stanley/Engelmann—Emory 1848 Cacti & desert shrubs of the Gila, figs 9–15—Stanley/Engelmann—Emory 1848

Cacti & desert shrubs of the Gila, figs 9–15—Stanley/Engelmann—Emory 1848

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SKU: P-6-112600

[Cacti and associated plants, figures 9–15]


Branching chollas share this plate with thorny desert shrubs and an unidentified plant, all drawn during the Army of the West’s journey. George Engelmann’s accompanying letter identifies figures 9–12 as Opuntia stanlyi, probably O. arborescens, O. californica and O. vaginata. He explicitly distinguishes figures 13–15 from the cacti: a Koeberlinia shrub, another possibly related shrub, and an unidentified plant he tentatively placed with the amaryllids. The Koeberlinia is associated today with crucifixion thorn or allthorn. Several identifications remained provisional. Based on John Mix Stanley’s drawings and lithographed by E. Weber & Co., the sheet preserves the exploratory character of nineteenth-century Southwestern botany.

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Size 23 x 13 cm | 9.0 x 5.0 inches

Date Published: 1848

Type: Antique uncoloured botanical lithograph

Author: Emory, William Hemsley

George Engelmann (1809–1884), botanical commentary; William Hemsley Emory (1811–1887), expedition drawings and report; E. Weber & Co., Baltimore, lithographers.

Publication: Notes of a Military Reconnoissance

Notes of a Military Reconnoissance, from Fort Leavenworth, in Missouri, to San Diego, in California, including parts of the Arkansas, Del Norte, and Gila Rivers. By W. H. Emory, Brevet Major, Corps Topographical Engineers. Made in 1846–7 with the advanced guard of the Army of the West. 30th Congress, 1st Session, Senate Executive No. 7. Washington: Wendell and Van Benthuysen, 1848

Condition: Good |

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