Credit: ©The Royal Society
Image number: RS.21581
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‘Sobralia macrantha’
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 Sobralia macrantha or the large-flowered Sobralia orchid. Depicting a group of stems with large, ridged leaves issuing alternately along its length and terminating with a large deep purple flower. The sepals and petals are open, and the lip of the flower is funnel shaped and in a deeper purple with bright orange centre.
Inscribed ‘Pl.37 , Miss Drake, delt. SOBRALIA MACRANTHA. M. Gauci, lith. Pubd. by J Ridgway & Sons, 169 Piccadilly, July 1842. Printed by P. Gauci.’
Plate 37 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.37 , Miss Drake, delt. SOBRALIA MACRANTHA. M. Gauci, lith. Pubd. by J Ridgway & Sons, 169 Piccadilly, July 1842. Printed by P. Gauci.’
Plate 37 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.