Botanical Art Gallery

Walter Fitch, Llewllyn House, Kew

Walter Fitch, Llewllyn House, Kew. Presented by his widow in 1904. Walter Fitch (1817-1892) was appointed as a botanical artist for Curtis' Botanical magazine by William Hooker. Over a period of forty years he produced illustrations of more than 2700 plants and published more than 10, 000 in total. He was known for his great skill as a lithographer, working directly onto a metal or stone plate without making preliminary sketches

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781. Poison Tree strangled by a Fig, Queensland

The central figure of this picture represents the skeleton-like trunk of a Fig Tree, which has nearly strangled the Poison Tree (Laportea, moroides, Wedd.), in a fork of whose branches it started life as a seedling epiphyte. It soon grew apace, and s

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Art, Artist, Fig, Leaves, Marianne North, Painting, Poison Tree, Queens Land, Skeleton Like, Strangled, Trunk

577. Flowers and Fruit of the Mangosteen, and Singapore Monkey

The Mangosteen (Garcinia Mangostana, Linn.) is a native of Malacca, and it is esteemed by many as the best of all tropical fruit. The white arils are juicy like the grape; the pink rind is apt to leave a stain on anything it touches. See 557

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Art, Artist, Flowers, Fruit, Grape, Juicy, Leaves, Malacca, Mangosteen, Marianne North, Monkey, Painting, Pink Rind, Singapore