![]() blank notecards (5 each of 4 designs) with envelopes in a decorative box. Contains five each of the following notecards: For the present set of notecards, four exceptional plants were selected from a copy of The Orchid Album in the collection of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. The illustrations-hand-tinted lithographs on royal quarto pages measuring ten by twelve inches-are by John Nugent Fitch, a printmaker who often worked for the Linnean Society. ![]() That year Benjamin Samuel Williams published a series of articles under the title "Orchids for the Millions" Together with Robert Warner, Williams went on to write his magnum opus, The Orchid Album, published in eleven volumes from 1882 to 1897. Nursery catalogs record orchids for sale as early as 1804, but few understood the needs of these unusual plants until the breakthrough of 1851. blank notecards (5 each of 4 designs) with envelopes in a decorative box.įor decades after the appearance of the first tropical orchids in the British Isles, enraptured gardeners built hothouses and essayed all manner of methods to coax their fabulously expensive Cattleyas and Oncidiums to bloom. Single Stem pattern (detail), before 1917 Morris' designs-many still produced today-exemplify the best of Victorian fashion and foreshadow the Arts and Crafts aesthetic that Morris would go on to champion. The gorgeous floral and foliate wallpaper designs on these notecards, from the collection of the Brooklyn Museum, were selected from a sample book of William Morris and Company published around the turn of the twentieth century. So after training as an architect, he founded a decorating company with friends to produce glasswork, metalwork, and countless other crafts, including many textiles he designed himself. ![]() He believed that decoration, in its finest form, gives pleasure to those who use it as well as to those who make it. Many of the orchids illustrated by Fitch in his watercolors have since gone extinct and others are extremely rare.A fierce foe of modernity, William Morris (English, 1834-1896) drew inspiration from the Middle Ages, when artist and craftsman were considered equals. Huge greenhouses were built a time that Britain was experiencing very active foreign trade in exotic botanical specimens which led to a proliferation of illustrated periodicals for horticulturists at every level of experience. The striking beauty of Fitch's orchid illustrations contributed to orchid mania that swept through Victorian Britain. John Nugent Fitch (1840-1927) was a British botanical illustrator and lithographer, best known for his contribution of 528 plates to The Orchid Album, but he also contributed to Curtis's Botanical Magazine from 1878. A discount is available for purchase of multiple prints. They would make a striking display grouping. There is another Fitch orchid lithograph listed on 1stdibs that is framed and matted identically to this one, although one is in a landscape orientation and the other in a portrait orientation. The original English descriptive text page is included in a mylar sleeve attached to the back of the frame. The print is presented in a soft green-colored ribbed wood frame and a cream-colored French mat, embellished by a green marble-patterned highlight band. His original drawings are in the Natural History Museum in London. ![]() The Orchid Album was illustrated by the master orchid illustrator, John Nugent Fitch. This beautiful, original hand-colored orchid lithograph entitled "Odontoglossum Aspersum" Orchids by John Nugent Fitch is plate 245 in Robert Warner's publication 'The Orchid Album, Comprising Coloured Figures and Descriptions of New, Rare, and Beautiful Orchidaceous Plants', published in London between 18. ![]()
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