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    Image number: RS.21561
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    ‘Epidendrum aurantiacum’

    Date
    1838
    Creator
    Maxim Gauci (1774 - 1854, Italian) , Lithographer
    Paul Gauci (British) , Printer
    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
    Subject
    Biology
       > Botany
    Content object
    nature
       > plant
    Description
    Botanical illustration of Cattleya aurantiaca here styled Epidendrum aurantiacum, also known as the orange Cattleya orchid. Showing a specimen of five thick stems, jointed and covered with papery membrane. Two glossy oblong leaves issue from the top of the stem around a single raceme, protected by a spathe and bearing a cluster of small orange flowers with open petals. Three stems shown to have finished flowering with one bearing a seed head and two shrivelled. Detail of the petals and lip to the lower-right hand corner as viewed.

    Inscribed ‘Pl.12, Mrs. Withers, delt. EPIDENDRUM AURANTIACUM. M. Gauci, lith. Pubd. by J Ridgway & Sons, 169 Piccadilly, Septr. 1st, 1838. Printed by P. Gauci, 9 North Crescent, Bedford Sqe.’
    Pate 12 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.
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