Credit: ©The Royal Society
Image number: RS.21564
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‘Stanhopea saccate’
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 saccate or pouch-lipped Stanhopea orchid. Depicting a single specimen with a cluster of pseudo-bulbs bearing a single large leaf. Two pendulous scapes issue from the base of the bulbs and bear a few flowers with pale yellow and orange petals which are turned back exposing the pouch shaped lips below. A detail of the lip shape to the lower right-hand corner as viewed.
Inscribed ‘Pl.15, Mrs. Withers, delt. STANHOPEA SACCATA. M. Gauci, lith. Pubd. by J Ridgway & Sons, 169 Piccadilly, Septr. 1st, 1838. Printed by P. Gauci, 9 North Crescent, Bedford Sqe.’
Plate 15 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.15, Mrs. Withers, delt. STANHOPEA SACCATA. M. Gauci, lith. Pubd. by J Ridgway & Sons, 169 Piccadilly, Septr. 1st, 1838. Printed by P. Gauci, 9 North Crescent, Bedford Sqe.’
Plate 15 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.