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Image number: RS.21583
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‘Oncidium wentworthaninum’
Date
1843
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 Oncidium wentworthaninum or Earl Fitzwilliam’s Oncidium orchid. Depicting a single specimen with a cluster of five pseudobulbs, small, dark green and marked with horizontal stripes. Dark green glossy leaves issue from the apex of the bulbs as well as the base, along with two scapes which have been cut off. A single flowering stem has been placed over the composition, long and arching and bearing many small yellow flowers along its length. The flowers are open and spotted with deep purple.
Inscribed ‘Pl.39 , Mrs Withers, delt. ONCIDIUM WENTWORTHAINUM. M. Gauci, lith. Pubd. by J Ridgway & Sons, 169 Piccadilly, March 1843. Printed by P. Gauci.’
Plate 39 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.39 , Mrs Withers, delt. ONCIDIUM WENTWORTHAINUM. M. Gauci, lith. Pubd. by J Ridgway & Sons, 169 Piccadilly, March 1843. Printed by P. Gauci.’
Plate 39 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.