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Original 150+-year-old chromolithographs and hand-coloured lithographs
by Walter H. Fitch and others
from various publications, published between 1850-1870
Sheet size varies somewhat, but generally between approx. 5.875 x 9.5 and 6¾ x 10¾ inches.
If more precise measurements are required, please enquire.
Image size varies.
PLEASE CLICK ON THUMBNAIL IMAGES BELOW TO ASSESS EACH PRINT'S CONDITION
AS SOME FOXING OR OTHER AGE-RELATED CONDITIONS MAY EXIST. |
Walter Hood Fitch
(1817-1892) |
Walter Hood Fitch, the most prolific of all botanical artists, was a typical product of the Victorian era, able and industrious;
like Sir William and Sir Joseph Hooker, whom he served successively for more than half a century.
Otto Stapf said this of Fitch's method:
"Fitch had a marvelous power of visualising plants as they lived and of retaining their image in his memory. This emboldened him rather to treat his originals as sketches than to work them into finished pictures, with the result that when finally drawn on stone they underwent a certain generalization in which the type of the species came to life and took the place of a photographically true portrait. His colouring was equally bold, which must have been a veritable boon to the colourists, who could get the desired effect with simple washes." ("The Art of Botanical Illustration" by Blunt and Stearn.)
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"Njimphaea alba var rosea"
$59.95
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"Standish's Perfection Rhododendron"
$59.95
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"Rhododendron Princess of Wales"
$59.95
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"Plate 48"
$59.95
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"Azalea Mars"
$59.95
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"Gloxinia"
$59.95
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"Plate 36"
$59.95
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"Lilium Washingtonianum"
$59.95
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"Disa Grandiflora Superba"
$59.95
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"Clematis rubro-violacea"
see enlargement for foxing
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"Aucuba japonica foern"
$59.95
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"Chinese Primrose"
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"Anthurium Scherzerianum"
$59.95
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"Plate 43"
$59.95
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"Narcissus graminifolius"
$59.95
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"Plate 12"
$59.95
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"Magnolia Lenné"
$59.95
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"Plate 6"
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"Plate 17"
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"Plate 52"
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