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Watts, May Theilgaard

The Deciduous Conifers


Identifier
3.24623
Format
Pen and India ink on 4-ply cream board.
Digitization Status
Digitized
Reproduction:
Original
Dimensions
36.9 cm W x 58.5 cm H (Item)
29.5 cm W x 44.4 cm H (Platemark or image size)
Extent
1 sheet
Type
Drawing
Date created
1945
Description
Illustrations of two conifer species, created to accompany "The Evergreen Trees" article featured in Morton Arboretum Bulletin of Popular Information. Illustrations include two full trees with two illustrations of leaves underneath. The identifying text "needles in tufts drooping twigs" is glued on separate piece of paper to the surface, top right. The remaining identifying text originally adhered to the board has detached and is no longer present. 

[Original header (not included with art): THE DECIDUOUS CONIFERS]

Trees depicted from left to right:
  • Bald cypress -- Taxodium distichum
  • European larch -- Larix descidua

 
Appeared In
Morton Arboretum Bulletin Of Popular Information, June and July 1945, Vol. 20, no. 6-7, p. 30.
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Language
English