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   Sprague
   Isaac
   I. S. ; no to mixed up with Isaac W. Sprague (1841-1887), the 'living skeleton' ;
   
   
   1811 in Hingham, Massachusetts
   1895
   Wellesley Hills, MA ; near Needham in Grantville, Massachusetts
   eldest son of Isaac Sprague III (1xxx-1825), box cooper, and Mary Burr Sprague of Hingham, Mass.
   
   self-taught landscape, botanical & ornithological painter; apprentice to his uncle Blossom Sprague, a carriage painter
   United States of America
   J. Audubon (Missouri Riv exped.) ; botanist John Torrey, botanist William Oakes & Asa Gray: U.S. Exploring Expedition 1838-42 (volume XV Botany Phanerogamia, atlas 1857; Genera of Plants of US 1848-9; Chloris Boreali Americana 1848; GL Goodale: Wild Flowers America 1886 ; Boston Journal of Natural History (Boston 1834-1837/63)
   Boston Atheneum, the Museum of Fine Arts (Boston), Smithsonian Institution; Harvard University ; Carnegie Mellon Univ., Hunt Institute ;
   artist ->Alfred T. Agate ; ->J. W. Casilear ; ->W. H. Dougal ; Prudhomme ; lithographer Charles Armstrong ; lithographer Joseph Prestele ;
   landscape, botanical and naturaral drawing, watercolour, and painting, hand-coloured botanical lithography and engraving ;
   huntbot.andrew.cmu.edu/hibd/departments/Art/Sprague.shtml ; sciweb.nybg.org/science2/Onlinexhibits/asagray.jpg ; www.bostonathenaeum/node/679 ;
   www.bostonathenaeum.org/node/679 ; complete listing of books inclding illustrations by I.S. in E.D. Rudolph 1990: 116-126 ;
   AKL ; Nissen: Botan. Buchillustration 1966; Zoolog. Buchillustration 1969/78 # 4592 ; Em. D. Rudolph: I. S., Delineator & Naturalist, in: Journal History Biology 23,1 (1990): 91-126 ; Nissen I 1951: 151 ; Bridson 2003: 2, 24f., 50, 66, 78f., 96, 161 & 189 ;
   See also Charles Wilkes' United States Exploring Expedition 1838-42 (pub. 1845–76); A.Gray & John Torrey: US War Dept.Reports1855ff.). See also: http://fmhibd.library.cmu.edu/HIBD-DB/ArtCat/recordlist.php?-skip=14750&-max=425 .
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