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 ;
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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