Opening flower. Plate 2, Page 2 of Victoria Regia; or the Great Water Lily of America. 1853. American. John Fisk Allen, author. William Sharp, illustrator. Published and printed in Boston, Massachusetts by Dutton and Wentworth. Collections of and digitalized by the Missouri Botanical Garden. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/mobot31753000796083/page/2/mode/1upIntermediate stages of bloom. Plate 4, Page 4 of Victoria Regia; or the Great Water Lily of America. 1853. American. John Fisk Allen, author. William Sharp, illustrator. Published and printed in Boston, Massachusetts by Dutton and Wentworth. Collections of and digitalized by the Missouri Botanical Garden. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/mobot31753000796083/page/4/mode/1upComplete bloom. Plate 5, Page 5 of Victoria Regia; or the Great Water Lily of America. 1853. American. John Fisk Allen, author. William Sharp, illustrator. Published and printed in Boston, Massachusetts by Dutton and Wentworth. Collections of and digitalized by the Missouri Botanical Garden. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/mobot31753000796083/page/5/mode/1upView of the form of the flower mentioned on the thirteenth page. Plate 6, Page 6 of Victoria Regia; or the Great Water Lily of America. 1853. American. John Fisk Allen, author. William Sharp, illustrator. Published and printed in Boston, Massachusetts by Dutton and Wentworth. Collections of and digitalized by the Missouri Botanical Garden. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/mobot31753000796083/page/6/mode/1up
The album was in the collections of Winifred Bois. Winifred Bois was the daughter of Frederic William Bois, (1848-1921). Frederic was an amateur photographer who exhibited at the Paris Exhibition of 1900, and whose family had held a prominent place in the mercantile life of Ceylon since the 1860s. Winifred traveled extensively in the Far East. She collected Chinese school watercolors.