Edwin Whitefield was a landscape artist who is best known for his lithographed views of North American cities and for a number of illustrated books on colonial homes in New England. He was a noted illustrator of native American flora.
Whitefield visited a series of North American cities, where he published books reproducing the paintings he made there. painted by Whitefield in 1853-54 He illustrated native American flora. Some of his illustrations were included in the 1848-1850 volumes by Asa B. Strong titled The American Flora and in the 1845 volume by Emma C Embury, American Wildflowers in Their Native Haunts. He died in Dedham, Massachusetts. ==References==