Credit: ©The Royal Society
Image number: RS.17654
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Moon orchid
Date
1838
Creator
S Watts (British) , Engraver
After
Sarah Anne Drake (1803 - 1857, British) , Illustrator
Object type
Library reference
49461
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 247mm
width (print): 150mm
width (print): 150mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Botanical study of the Moon orchid Phalaenopsis amabilis, here referred to as the Indian butterfly-plant. The plant is native to India and southeast Asia, including Indonesia and the Philippines. The plate shows the full plant, including flowers, leaves, sheaths, pseudobulb and roots.
Plate 34 from Edwards’s botanical register…edited by John Lindley, new series v.1, (London, James Ridgway and Sons, 1838). The plate is inscribed ‘34’ above; and below ‘Miss Drake del. Pub by J. Ridgway, 169 Piccadilly July 1. 1838. S. Watts sc.’
In the associated text, the author states that: ‘This very rare and beautiful epiphyte flowered a few weeks since in the Epiphyte-house of Messrs. Rollisons of Tooting, I believe for the first time in Europe. It had been sent to them from Manilla by Mr. Cuming.’
John Lindley (1799-1865) British botanist and horticulturalist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1828.
Sarah Anne Drake (1803-1857), British botanical artist, was a long-term associate of the Lindley family and a prolific illustrator for James Lindley.
Plate 34 from Edwards’s botanical register…edited by John Lindley, new series v.1, (London, James Ridgway and Sons, 1838). The plate is inscribed ‘34’ above; and below ‘Miss Drake del. Pub by J. Ridgway, 169 Piccadilly July 1. 1838. S. Watts sc.’
In the associated text, the author states that: ‘This very rare and beautiful epiphyte flowered a few weeks since in the Epiphyte-house of Messrs. Rollisons of Tooting, I believe for the first time in Europe. It had been sent to them from Manilla by Mr. Cuming.’
John Lindley (1799-1865) British botanist and horticulturalist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1828.
Sarah Anne Drake (1803-1857), British botanical artist, was a long-term associate of the Lindley family and a prolific illustrator for James Lindley.
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