Orchids by Walter Fitch from 'Curtis's Botanical Magazine' published by Sir William Hooker 1861-1865

Walter Hood Fitch ( 1817-92 ) was without question the most important botanical illustrator of his time. He produced some 10,000 illustrations for a number of botanical periodicals and over 35 books. For almost forty years he served under Sir W.J.Hooker and Sir Joseph Hooker, directors of the 'Royal Gardens at Kew' as  the sole illustrator for 'The Botanical Magazine'.
' A Century of Orchidaceous Plants' by W.J. Hooker, 'A Second Century of Orchidaceous Plants' by J. Bateman and  'A Monograph of Odontoglossum' by J. Bateman are just a few of many well known publications containing Fitch's beautiful lithographs.
Talented and industrious Fitch was responsible for both the drawings and the lithography.
Prime Minister Disraeli himself granted W. Fitch a Civil Servant's  pension of 100 Pound Sterling per annum in 1879. John Nugent Fitch, a nephew continued W.Fitch's work with great skill providing illustrations for "The Botanical Magazine"  and ' The Orchid Album'.
Our exquisitely hand colored stone lithographs include the descriptive text plates with the original scientific description of the species in Latin and  popular cultural notes in English by Bateman and Hooker.
Plates are 6" x 10"  on heavy, quality paper. Condition is very fine and uniform with bright original color applied by hand just like beautiful watercolors.
These are NOT chromo lithos.

Oncidium excavatum $70  Maxillaria venusta $50  Dendrobium Lowii $50  Bulbo Rhizophorea $60

 Limatodes rosea $70    Bulbo cupreun $50   Coelogyne Parishii $50    Saccolabium miniatum $75

Bulbo pavimentatum $60    Epi prismatocarpum $75    Phal Lowii $55     Corysantes limbata $30

Zosterostylis arachnites $40 Pleurothallis Reymondi $20 Catasetum cernum $50 Den nodatum $40

 Phal sumatrana $75  Dendrob Johannis $75  Trichopila turialvea $40  Coelogyne odoratissima $40

  Masdevallia civilis $50     Den japonicum $40     Masd tovarensis $40   Liparis atropurpurea sold

 
Dendrobium tattonianum $70  Palumbina candida $40

Double size foldout plates
Stanhopea Wardii $150  Stanhopea oculata $95  Cypripedium Stonei $175