Warner again, he commenced the publication of 'The Orchid Album', a monthly illustrated periodical which gained great popular favour" (Reinikka, History of the Orchid, p. Robert Warner's 'Select Orchidaceous Plants', which was begun in 1862, and 1881 in association with Mr. best known for his contribution of 528 plates to The Orchid Album. John Nugent Fitchs most popular book is Orchid Album: Comprising Coloured Figures and Descri. John Nugent Fitch (24 October 1840 11 January 1927) was a British botanical. Nephew to the outstanding lithographer Walter Hood Fitch, John Nugent Fitch was fifty-two years old before his uncle and mentor died" (The Orchid observed, 23)"He (Williams) furnished the cultural notes for Mr. Orchid album, comprising colored., 18821897 Sale Date: January 15, 2003. John Nugent Fitch has 12 books on Goodreads with 3 ratings. John Nugent Fitch (18401927) was a botanical illustrator and lithographer, best known for his contribution of 528 plates to The Orchid Album. Plates and text partly loose, some spines with tiny wormholes."John Nugent Fitch (1840-1927) both drew and lithographed the 528 partly hand-colored, partly color-printed plates that compose this work. The Orchid Album, written by Robert Warner and illustrated by John Nugent Fitch, set the standard for orchid description and illustration in the nineteenth century. A rare complete set of one of the finest publications on orchids and an important record of orchid varieties discovered and described in the 19th century.A copy with considerable foxing to the text, the plates however, are hardly affected as these were printed on thicker paper. Publisher's pictorial gilt cloth, gilt edges (bindings worn). New York: The Atlantic Monthly Press, 1990 p. You can also browse by medium to find art by John Nugent Fitch in engraving and more. 2013 - 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.
Die Botanische Buchillustration: ihre Geschichte und Bibliographie. Find a wide variety of authentic John Nugent Fitch art available for sale on 1stDibs. Both men also contributed to the monumental English colorplate work, Curtis’s Botanical Magazine.Ĭondition: Generally very good with the usual light toning, wear, soft creases. orthoplectron,represents instead a specimen of T. John Nugent Fitch was the nephew of renowned botanical artist Walter Hood Fitch. The plant illustrated by John Nugent Fitch for Warner and Williams’s Orchid Album(1887: pl. … Its appearance was hailed with great satisfaction in horticultural circles throughout the world, and it numbers among its subscribers nearly all lovers of Orchids and many of our leading and most influential horticulturalists. In 1881 he commenced his magnum opus, the Orchid Album, which was projected with the idea of supplying a demand for illustrations of Orchidaceous plants, with botanical descriptions of the plants figured, and notes on their cultivation. Orchid Album, Comprising Colored Figures And Decriptions Of Newrare And Beautiful Orchidaceous Plants: Six Plates oil painting by John Nugent Fitch. A tribute to him, appearing in volume 9, recollects his goals in publishing this important work: It was published by Benjamin Samuel William. The 528 plates in this major work were lithographed by John Nugent Fitch based on. The cultivation of orchids was all the rage in late Victorian England and on the continent and several orchid societies thrived. A selection of colorful orchid botanical studies from the Orchid Album.
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