Credit: ©The Royal Society
Image number: RS.21556
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‘Stanhopea tigrine’
Date
1838
Creator
Creator - Organisation
J Ridgway & Sons, Publisher
After
Augusta Innes Withers (1792 - 1877, 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 Stanhopea tigrine or the tiger-like Stanhopea orchid. A specimen showing large broad leaves emerging from small pseudo bulbs with roots. The scape is shown pendulous and bearing large yellow flowers with purple tiger-like markings. Detail of the lip and column lower right hand corner.
Inscribed ‘Pl.7, Mrs. Withers, delt. STANHOPEA TIGRINA. M. Gauci, lith. Pubd. by J Ridgway & Sons, 169 Piccadilly, March 1, 1838. Printed by P. Gauci, 9 North Crescent, Bedford Sqe.’
Plate 7 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.7, Mrs. Withers, delt. STANHOPEA TIGRINA. M. Gauci, lith. Pubd. by J Ridgway & Sons, 169 Piccadilly, March 1, 1838. Printed by P. Gauci, 9 North Crescent, Bedford Sqe.’
Plate 7 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.