Credit: ©The Royal Society
Image number: RS.21559
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‘Epidendrum aromaticum’
Date
1838
Creator
Creator - Organisation
J Ridgway & Sons, Publisher
After
Sarah Anne Drake (1803 - 1857, British) , Illustrator
Object type
Library reference
26846
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 580mm
width (print): 430mm
width (print): 430mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Botanical illustration of Epidendrum aromaticum or the aromatic Epidendrum orchid. Depicted with large globular psudo-bulbs with two long thin leaves emerging from the apex of each bulb. A single scape issuing from the centre of one bulb, upright and forming a bract of many branches full of small pale yellow flowers. Details of the lip and column to the lower left-hand corner as viewed. The lip is yellow with fine purple veins.
Inscribed ‘Pl.10, Miss Drake delt. EPIDENDRUM AROMATICUM. M. Gauci, lith. Pubd. by J Ridgway & Sons, 169 Piccadilly, March 1, 1838. Printed by P. Gauci, 9 North Crescent, Bedford Sqe.’
Pate 10 fromThe Orchidaceae of Mexico & Guatemala by James Bateman (London, 1843).
James Bateman (1811-1897), British horticulturalist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1838.
Inscribed ‘Pl.10, Miss Drake delt. EPIDENDRUM AROMATICUM. M. Gauci, lith. Pubd. by J Ridgway & Sons, 169 Piccadilly, March 1, 1838. Printed by P. Gauci, 9 North Crescent, Bedford Sqe.’
Pate 10 fromThe Orchidaceae of Mexico & Guatemala by James Bateman (London, 1843).
James Bateman (1811-1897), British horticulturalist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1838.