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    Image number: RS.21577
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    ‘Barkerai spectabilis’

    Date
    1842
    Creator
    Maxim Gauci (1774 - 1854, Italian) , Lithographer
    Paul Gauci (British) , Printer
    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
    Subject
    Biology
       > Botany
    Content object
    nature
       > plant
    Description
    Botanical illustration of Barkerai spectabilis or the shewy Barkerai orchid. A single specimen showing a cluster of thick stems, segmented and sheathed, with a pair or broad dark green leaves issuing from the top. A raceme emerges bearing a handful of large flowers, pinkish purple in colour with deep red spot markings on the lip.

    Inscribed ‘Pl.33 , Miss Drake delt. BARKERAI SPECTABILIS. M. Gauci, lith. Pubd. by J Ridgway & Sons, 169 Piccadilly, July 1842. Printed by P. Gauci.’

    Plate 33 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.
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