Background:

These prints are from an early 1900s folio of North American Wild Flowers illustrated by Mary Walcott.  Mrs. Walcott, wife of the American geologist Dr. Charles Walcott, completed many of the watercolor sketches, on which the prints are based, over a 10 year period of time while accompanying her husband on geological expeditions in the Canadian Rockies.  It is interesting to note that Dr. Walcott was also executive secretary of the Smithsonian Institute, the publisher of the folio.