Credit: ©The Royal Society
Image number: RS.21565
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‘Oncidium insleayi’
Date
1840
Creator
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 Rossioglossum insleayi here styled Oncidium insleayi or Mr. Insleay’s Oncidium orchid. Depicting a single specimen with a cluster of pseudo-bulbs bearing a pair of bluish green leaves. Two upright stems issue from the base of the bulbs and bear several bright yellow flowers with dark reddish-brown markings. A detail of the lip and column to the lower left-hand side as viewed.
Inscribed ‘Pl.21, Miss Drake delt. ONCIDIUM INSLEAYI. M. Gauci, lith. Pubd. by J Ridgway & Sons, 169 Piccadilly, Septr. 1840. Printed by P. Gauci.’
Plate 21 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.21, Miss Drake delt. ONCIDIUM INSLEAYI. M. Gauci, lith. Pubd. by J Ridgway & Sons, 169 Piccadilly, Septr. 1840. Printed by P. Gauci.’
Plate 21 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.