Victoria Regia Water Lily, First Grown Outdoors in Europe,…
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Victoria Regia Water Lily, First Grown Outdoors in Europe, Sukhumi Botanical Garden, 1912 — an early colour photograph by Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky, taken between 1905 and 1915 (Georgia, Georgia (Republic), Sukhumi).
Subjects: water lilies, botanical gardens, georgia (republic), flowers, sukhumi.
Made with his three-exposure colour-separation method on a single glass plate; Prokudin-Gorskii Collection, Library of Congress.
Original Russian caption: Victoria regia. Pervyĭ raz v Evropie vyvedena na vozdukhie. Posazhena v iiunie 1912 g. Botanich. sad v Sukhumie.
