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Image number: RS.21562
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‘Cattleya skinneri’
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 Cattleya skinneri or Mr. Skinner’s Cattleya orchid. Single specimen of four pseudo-bulbous 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 deep pink flowers with darker funnel shaped lip with white throat. Two stems shown to have finished flowering with one leafless and shrivelled.
Inscribed ‘Pl.13, Mrs. Withers, delt. CATTLEYA SKINNERI. M. Gauci, lith. Pubd. by J Ridgway & Sons, 169 Piccadilly, Septr. 1st, 1838. Printed by P. Gauci, 9 North Crescent, Bedford Sqe.’
Pate 13 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.
Inscribed ‘Pl.13, Mrs. Withers, delt. CATTLEYA SKINNERI. M. Gauci, lith. Pubd. by J Ridgway & Sons, 169 Piccadilly, Septr. 1st, 1838. Printed by P. Gauci, 9 North Crescent, Bedford Sqe.’
Pate 13 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.