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Image number: RS.21579
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‘Maxillaria skinneri’
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 Lycaste virginalis, here styled Maxillaria skinneri or Mr Skinner’s Maxillaria orchid. A single specimen depicted with three small pseudo bulbs with large leaves issuing from the apex. Four scapes emerge from the base of the bulbs and are segmented and sheathed, terminating with a single large flower. The sepals are open with the petals curled in, both in pale pink with a darker lip.
Inscribed ‘Pl.35 , Mrs Withers, delt. MAXILLARIA SKINNERI. M. Gauci, lith. Pubd. by J Ridgway & Sons, 169 Piccadilly, July 1842. Printed by P. Gauci.’
Plate 35 from The 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.35 , Mrs Withers, delt. MAXILLARIA SKINNERI. M. Gauci, lith. Pubd. by J Ridgway & Sons, 169 Piccadilly, July 1842. Printed by P. Gauci.’
Plate 35 from The 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.