Antique? Lily Art Identify Artist and Type of Work

I was out looking for some frames to use for some old photographs I have and was a couple hundred miles from home. Found a shop full of so much stuff it makes your eyes wobble ala walmart. Most of it overpriced but the frames were cheap. Anyway, I saw this and thought I better buy it for two bucks. Anyway, hoping someone with more experience and expertise than I have can help with identifying - if known - the artist, possible age of the piece, and the type of work. Thanks

 

Did it come in a frame? If so, could/would you post a photograph?

Debora

 

Did you do a Google Image search to see if you come up with a match? Is there a species printed somewhere that would help in a search? Walter Hood Fitch was an illustrator of lilies. Have you done a search of his work?

Debora

 

Hi Deborah, I just assumed the name on the back was the artist name with the details for the piece. I did not dismount is from the matt however though it is just a very thin bit that is covered over by the matt. It looks like pastels under 10x with no indications of pixelation, but this is not my forte'

Anyway, here is the framed image (had a very tanned and brittle paper back on it that I had to remove)

 

It seems that it may be a copy of a Loudon print

https://www.etsy.com/listing/156496538/botanical-print-loudon-flower-botanical

 

The name on the back (Lewis) is the client for whom the piece was framed.

Debora

 

Here's more information on the piece. It may well be an original. You'll only know what you have if you open the frame up.

Debora

 

Genius. I have got to learn to used the image search better! So that would certainly make this a copy and I should not feel bad about using the frame for what I intended, which was to display an old antique photo

 

Either way, that matt needs to go. It's high acid, and acid eats paper.

 

Wait... You don't know if it's a copy or not. I suggest -- again -- that you open it up carefully and see what you've got. To my eye, it looks like it could well be original.

Debora

 

May well be an original plate from a 1841 book. (Often they were broken up and the plates sold separately.) Don't get it wet; if original, would have been hand colored.

https://www.abebooks.com/art-prints/Lily-Jane-Loudon-London/30693282916/bd

Debora

 

I worded poorly and should just have said print.