Color Illustrations

175 elegant lithographs of medicinal plants from the first quarter of the 20th century by Mary Vaux Walcott

Michaels Commentary: Mary Vaux Walcott was the wife of the then-director of the Smithsonian Institution, Charles D. Walcott. During the first three decades of the 20th century she made over 400 paintings of North American Plants…I have scanned a third of these (the medicinal ones) and, with the aid of my 604e (now G4) Mac and trusty Photoshop, have wiped away the years and the faded paper. These are elegant, indeed. The file names of some have been changed to protect the botanists…the original taxonomy has been retained on the illustration.