MEEHAN, Thomas (19th Century).
Calypso Borealis (Calypso orchid), Plate 33.
Chromolithograph.
From the Native Flowers and Ferns of the United States...Volume II, Series II.
Philadelphia: Chas. Robson & Co, 1880.
Approximately 10 1/2" x 7 1/2" sheet.

Meehan was an Englishman, trained at Kew, who moved to Germantown, Pennsylvania in 1853, where he spent the rest of his life running a nursery and editing various gardening periodicals. This is his masterwork, and one of the leading authorities on ferns in America. It is also a notable 19th-century American color plate book, issued by Prang of Boston, the leading chromolithographer of the period.