Artworks : Orchid Paintings

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Title

Artworks : Orchid Paintings

Subject

Botanical illustration
Orchids
Orchid cultivation
Plant collections

Description

Orchid paintings, archival records and herbarium specimens of National Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin.

Creator

National Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin

Source

[no text]

Publisher

Library, National Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin

Date

ca. 1900

Contributor

[no text]

Rights

These works have been made available by the National Botanic Gardens Library. The material should not be changed in any way or used commercially. Please contact the National Botanic Garden for permission to use.

Relation

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Format

Watercolour on paper

Language

eng

Type

still image
text

Identifier

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Coverage

Dublin

Collection Items

Masdevallia curtipes
Watercolour painting of Masdevallia curtipes. Signed with artist's monogram A.J. centre right of image. Annotated in pencil on verso: "Value 2/-". Family name is Orchidaceae. Current name Masdevallia curtipes Barb.Rodr., Gen. Spec. Orchid. 2: 95…

Masdevallia pachyura
Watercolour of Masdevallia pachyura. Signed with artist's monogram 'H' or 'JH' below title. Artist is possibly Josephine Humphries (fl. 1890s).Family name is Orchidaceae. Masdevallia pachyura Rchb.f., Gard. Chron., n.s., 2: 322 (1874). Source:…

Moorea irrorata
Watercolour of Moorea irrorata. Monogram appears to the lower right of the image and consists of the artists initials L.S. underlined. Family name is Orchidaceae. Current name : Neomoorea wallisii (Rchb.f.) Schltr., Orchid Rev. 32: 355 (1924).…

Cattleya labiata
Watercolour of Cattleya labiata. Monogram appears to the lower right of the image and consists of the artists initials L.S. underlined. Undated. Family name is Orchidaceae. Current name Cattleya labiata Lindl., Coll. Bot.: t. 33…

Chondrorhyncha Chestertonii
Watercolour of Chondrorhyncha Chestertonii. Monogram appears to the lower right of the image and consists of the artists initials L.S. underlined. Family name is Orchidaceae. Current name Chondroscaphe chestertonii (Rchb.f.) Senghas &…

Pleurothallis astrophora
Monogram appears to the lower right of the image and consists of the artists initials L.S.- underlined. Family name is Orchidaceae. Current accepted name : Lepanthopsis astrophora (Rchb.f. ex Kraenzl.) Garay, Caldasia 8: 520 (1962). Source :…
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