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Image number: RS.21553
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‘Oncidium ornithorhynchum’
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 ornithorhynchum or dove orchid. Depicted as a single specimen with three elliptic leaves emerging from a cluster of pseudobulbs. Two arching panicles with numerous branches bearing lots of small rosy-lilac flowers with orange crest. A magnified detail of the flower at fig.1.
Inscribed ‘Pl.4, Miss Drake del. ONCIDIUM ORNITHORHYNCHUM. M. Gauci, lith, 9 North Crescent, Bedford Sqe. Pubd. By J Ridgway & Sons, 169 Piccadilly, July 1, 1837.'
Plate 4 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.4, Miss Drake del. ONCIDIUM ORNITHORHYNCHUM. M. Gauci, lith, 9 North Crescent, Bedford Sqe. Pubd. By J Ridgway & Sons, 169 Piccadilly, July 1, 1837.'
Plate 4 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.