Wealthy orchid fanatics of the twentieth century sent explorers and collectors to every part of the world in search of new varieties of orchids. 3003: BOMBAY PRIVATE COLLECTION ORCHID PRINT JOHN FITCH Est: 50 - 80 View sold prices Dec. Orchidelirium is the name given to the Victorian era of flower madness when collecting and discovering orchids reached extraordinarily high levels. Part of the Bombay Company John Nugent Fitch(1840 - 1927) Orchid Album prints, white orchid platenumber 225. This work set the standard for orchid description and illustration. Bound in dark brown morocco leather, gilt title on left cover within gilt-tooled frame with angular floral decorative motives. A few slightly browned, without affecting the images. 4 contains plates from 145 to 192 (of a grand total of 528 lithographic plates) by and after John Nugent Fitch, partly hand-coloured, partly colour-printed. Only the fourth volume, complete, out of a set of eleven, plus a number of loose plates from Volume 3 (18 plates: Nos 100, 102-3, 107, 111-2, 114, 116, 118, 120, 127, 128, 130, 133-4, 138, 140, 143). 'The Orchid Album' Comprising coloured figures and descriptions of new, rare, and beautiful orchidaceous plants Conducted by Robert Warner and Benjamin Samuel Williams The botanical descriptions by Thomas Moore The coloured figures by John Nugent Fitch (18401927) Victoria and Paradise Nurseries, upper Holloway, N. ![]() The Coloured Figures by John Nugent Fitch, F.L.S. The Botanical Descriptions by Thomas Moore, F.L.S., F.R.H.S., Curator of the Chelsea Botanic Garden. Fitch was famous as the lithographer for Curtis’s Botanical Magazine, and illustrated Warner and Williams’ Orchid Album (18821889). Conducted by Robert Warner, F.L.S., F.R.H.S., Author of Select Orchidaceous Plants, and Benjamin Samuel Williams, F.L.S., F.R.H.S., Author of the Orchid Grower s Manual, etc. John Nugent albums and discography on AllMusic including all best, old, and new album information. Nugent Fitchs work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 120. The entire works consisted of a total of 528 plates which were bound in eleven volumes and published in London between 1882-1897. The Orchid Album, Comprising Coloured Figures and Descriptions of New, Rare, and Beautiful Orchidaceous Plants. Nugent Fitch was a British artist who was born in 1840. The image at left is Plate 250 (1887) from The Orchid Album, issued by Warner and Williams. ReferencesĮxternal linksWikimedia Commons has media related to John Nugent Fitch.WARNER, Robert WILLIAMS, Benjamin Samuel. He was also employed by Trevor Lawrence to paint pictures of his orchids.įitch was elected a fellow of the Linnean Society in 1877. Fitch also produced plates for Lepidoptera Indica by Frederic Moore. Part of the Bombay Company John Nugent Fitch(1840 - 1927) Orchid Album prints, white orchid platenumber 225. 1882 - 1897) Artist: John Nugent Fitch (British painter and botanical. Fitch also contributed to Curtis's Botanical Magazine from 1878, joining a select group of illustrators such as William Kilburn, James Sowerby, Sydenham Edwards, William Jackson Hooker and Walter Hood Fitch. Illustration from The Orchid Album, Comprising Coloured Figures and Descripti. ![]() Fitch was the nephew of botanical artist Walter Hood Fitch (1817–1892). It all began when he was an undergraduate and found a job helping a wealthy Bel Air resident cultivate his orchids. ![]() The origin of Joseph Ardittis orchid fascination is a simple one. John Nugent Fitch (24 October 1840 – 11 January 1927) was a British botanical illustrator and lithographer, best known for his contribution of 528 plates to The Orchid Album, a landmark work of eleven volumes published between 18. The Dendrobium nobile orchid as illustrated by John Nugent Fitch in The Orchid Album (1886). British lithographer and botanical illustrator Cypripedium measuresianum Laelia anceps stella
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