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Image number: RS.21576
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‘Epidendrums erubescens’
Date
1842
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 Artorima erubescens here styled Epidendrums erubescens or the blushing Epidendrum. A single specimen with a panicle issuing from two dark green leaves and bearing a multitude of large pink flowers with deeper veining.
Inscribed ‘Pl.32, Miss Drake delt. EPIDENDRUM ERUBESCENS. M. Gauci, lith. Pubd. by J Ridgway & Sons, 169 Piccadilly, July 1842. Printed by P. Gauci.’
Plate 32 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.32, Miss Drake delt. EPIDENDRUM ERUBESCENS. M. Gauci, lith. Pubd. by J Ridgway & Sons, 169 Piccadilly, July 1842. Printed by P. Gauci.’
Plate 32 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.