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Texas Wildflowers
Eliza Griffin Johnston
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Description for Texas Wildflowers
Num Pages: 248 pages, 97 facsimile color prints. BIC Classification: 1KBBW; WNP; WTH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 311 x 238 x 33. Weight in Grams: 1272.
These beautiful watercolor images of Texas wild flowers were created in the 1840s and 1850s by Eliza Griffin Johnston, bound into a book, and given to her husband, General Albert Sidney Johnston for his birthday. In 1862, during the Civil War, General Johnston was killed at the Battle of Shiloh. In 1894, Eliza’s friend, Rebecca Jane Fisher, of The Daughters of the Republic of Texas, began acquiring artifacts from the Republic of Texas era for a museum and asked Eliza for something that had belonged to the General. It was through those efforts that the chapter received the book, which ... Read more
These beautiful watercolor images of Texas wild flowers were created in the 1840s and 1850s by Eliza Griffin Johnston, bound into a book, and given to her husband, General Albert Sidney Johnston for his birthday. In 1862, during the Civil War, General Johnston was killed at the Battle of Shiloh. In 1894, Eliza’s friend, Rebecca Jane Fisher, of The Daughters of the Republic of Texas, began acquiring artifacts from the Republic of Texas era for a museum and asked Eliza for something that had belonged to the General. It was through those efforts that the chapter received the book, which ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Schiffer Publishing Ltd United States
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
Number of Pages
248
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
Atglen, United States
ISBN
9780764338632
SKU
V9780764338632
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99-50
About Eliza Griffin Johnston
A native of Virginia, Eliza Griffin Johnston married General Albert Sidney Johnston in 1843. While living in Austin, Texas, she began painting the wildflowers in the area, which she presented to her husband for his birthday. She died in 1896.
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