Magnolia Seedpods

Ella Sophonisba Hergesheimer, born in Allentown, Pennsylvania, was an American illustrator, painter, and printmaker known for her portrayals of Tennessee society women and their children. Hergesheimer was the great-great granddaughter of the legendary Philadelphia artist Charles Willson Peale, and so comes from a long line of artists.

As a printmaker, she pioneered the “white-line woodcut”, of which Magnolia Seedpods is an excellent example.