A3. Amanita citrina

Description:

Watercolor on paper illustrating various stages of mushroom maturation. Jervey noted on the lower left, "Three Stages of The Amanita Citrina. Edible" and wrote on reverse, "from A 2. My brother-inlaw, Charles Cotsworth [sic] Pinckney told me he had never spent a day shooting that gave him as much pleasure (real pleasure) as a day in the woods picking mushrooms. It is a real recreation and a food 'without money & without price.' Bishop Query wrote in The Dunes 'Primitive & prehistoric man walks out in the forest eats of "

• Title: A3. Amanita citrina
• Creator: Jervey, Ida Morris, 1861-1938
• Date: 1937
• Signature: IMJ
• Signature Location: lower right in ink
• Culture: American
• School: Academic
• Dimensions: H-5 W-3.5 inches
• Makers Mark: Lower right corner: "I.M.J."

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• Collection: Works on Paper Collection
• Object Name: Ida Morris Jervey Mushroom Primer
• Other Name: Work on paper
• Object Id: AZ 1293c

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