Credit: ©The Royal Society
Image number: RS.21550
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‘Oncidium leucochilum’
Date
1837
Creator
Maxim Gauci (1774 - 1854, Italian) , Lithographer
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 Oncidium leucochilum, the white lipped Oncidium orchid. Depicted as a single specimen with a pseudobulb, roots and sword-shaped leaves. The panicle is cut off and placed in the foreground of the composition with numerous branches bearing many small flowers of speckled green petals with white lips.
Inscribed ‘Pl.I, Miss Drake del. ONCIDIUM LEUCOCHILUM. M. Gauci, lith, 9 North Crescent, Bedford Sqe. Pubd. By J Ridgway & Sons, 169 Piccadilly, July 1, 1837.'
Plate I from The 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.I, Miss Drake del. ONCIDIUM LEUCOCHILUM. M. Gauci, lith, 9 North Crescent, Bedford Sqe. Pubd. By J Ridgway & Sons, 169 Piccadilly, July 1, 1837.'
Plate I from The 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.