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Image number: RS.21575
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‘Chysis lœvis’
Date
1842
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 Chysis lœvis or the smooth-lipped Chysis. Depicted as a single specimen with pendulous stems suspended from a branch. The main stem issues broad dark green leaves along the length, arranged alternately. A single raceme with a handful of bright yellow flowers issues from the base of an emerging stem and hangs down. A detail of the lip with waved edges can be seen in the lower-left hand corner.
Inscribed ‘Pl.31, Mrs Withers delt. CHYSIS LOEVIS. M. Gauci, lith. Pubd. by J Ridgway & Sons, 169 Piccadilly, July 1842. Printed by P. Gauci.’
Plate 31 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.31, Mrs Withers delt. CHYSIS LOEVIS. M. Gauci, lith. Pubd. by J Ridgway & Sons, 169 Piccadilly, July 1842. Printed by P. Gauci.’
Plate 31 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.