Flowering Gallery

Lycaste aromatica, 1827

Illustration of Lycaste aromatica by Robert Kaye Greville and engraved by Joseph Swan. Artwork from Exotic flora: containing figures and descriptions of new, rare or otherwise interesting exotic plants...with remarks upon their generic and specific characters, natural orders, history, culture, time of flowering by William Jackson Hooker, 1827; volume 3, t. 219

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Dendrobium speciosum, 1861

Hand-coloured lithograph on paper by Walter Hood Fitch, 1861. Artwork from Curtis's Botanical Magazine, volume 87, plate 5261. Curtis's Botanical Magazine is the longest running botanical periodical featuring colour illustrations of plants and has been published continuously since 1787

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Brassavola perinii, 1840

Hand-coloured lithograph on paper by Walter Hood Fitch, 1840. Artwork from Curtis's Botanical Magazine, (serie 2) volume 13 plate 3761. Curtis's Botanical Magazine is the longest running botanical periodical featuring colour illustrations of plants and has been published continuously since 1787

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