Credit: ©The Royal Society
Image number: RS.21574
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‘Schomburgkia tibicinic’
Date
1841
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 Myrmecophila tibicinis or the trumpet player’s Schomburgkia. Depicting a single specimen with long thick hollow stems and three glossy dark green leaves emerging from the apex. Two flowering stems are shown in the foreground of the image, cut from the main plant and bearing many flowers. Blossoms are purple and deep brown with curled petals and sepals and shown opening in succession. Detail of the lip and column in the lower-left hand corner.
Inscribed ‘Pl.30, Miss Drake delt. SCHOMBURGKIA TIBICINIS. M. Gauci, lith. Pubd. by J Ridgway & Sons, 169 Piccadilly, Decr. 1841. Printed by P. Gauci.’
Plate 30 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.30, Miss Drake delt. SCHOMBURGKIA TIBICINIS. M. Gauci, lith. Pubd. by J Ridgway & Sons, 169 Piccadilly, Decr. 1841. Printed by P. Gauci.’
Plate 30 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.