Credit: © The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.9852
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    'Orchideae' [orchids]

    Date
    1899
    Creator
    Adolf Giltsch (1852 - 1911, German) , Lithographer
    After
    Ernst Haeckel (1834 - 1919, German) , Biologist
    Object type
    Library reference
    42553
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (print): 357mm
    width (print): 279mm
    Subject
    Biology
       > Botany
    Content object
    nature
       > plant
          > flower
    Description
    Sixteen botanical studies, figures of orchids presented as a single floral display:

    1 Odontoglossum naevium; 2 Oncidium krameriannum; 3 Odontoglossum ramosissimum; 4 Odontoglossum schroederianum; 5 Cattleya ballantiniana; 6 Cattleya mendellii; 7 Cypripedium lemoinieri; 8 Cattleya rochellensis; 9 Cypripedium leeanum; 10 Odontoglossum wattianum; 11 Cattleya labiata; 12 Epidendrum atropurpureum; 13 Cypripedium argus; 14 Paphinia rugosa; 15 Zygopetalum xanthinum; 16 Oncidium laxense.

    Plate 74 from Kunstformen der natur by Ernst Haeckel (Leipzig, Wien, Bibliographische Institut, 1899-1904).

    Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel (1834-1919), German zoologist, naturalist and eugenicist, was not a Fellow of the Royal Society.
    Associated place
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          > Germany
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