Prestele, William Henry, 1838-1895

LC control no.	n 2011053930
Personal name heading	Prestele, William Henry, 1838-1895 *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Prestele, Wilhelm Heinrich, 1838-1895
Found in	NUCMC data from McLean County Museum of Hist. for Phoenix family and nurseries collection, 1823-1999 (William Henry Prestele; artist who moved from New York City to Bloomington in 1867 and became main producer of horticultural nursery plates for F.K. Phoenix) Inspiration and translation: botanical and horticultural lithographs of Joseph Prestele and sons, 2005 (William Henry Prestele, 1838-1895) Wikipedia WWW, Aug. 8, 2011 (Wilhelm Heinrich Prestele (or William Henry Prestele) (Oct. 13, 1838-Aug. 16, 1895) was a botanical artist known for his lithographs and watercolor work commissioned by the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture; Prestele was born in Hesse-Darmstadt, Germany, to Franz Joseph Martin Prestele (also a painter and lithographer of flowers and fruits) and Karoline Russ and raised in the Amana Colonies in Iowa. In 1867, at the age of 29, he was hired to make a series of nurserymen's plates by an Illinois nursery owner [Phoenix]. When this relationship ended in 1871, he went into business with L.B. Littlefield, publishing fruit and flower plates, and later, in 1875, set up as a lithographer in Iowa City, near where he was raised; on Aug. 1, 1887, he was appointed as the first artist on the staff of the Pomological Division of the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture in Washington, D.C.)