Four Botanical Plates, 1851
The Rhododendrons, a Set of Four
Sold as a set of 4
Walter Hood Fitch drew these rhododendrons for Joseph Dalton Hooker's study of plants collected in the Sikkim Himalaya. Their beauty is inseparable from their accuracy: each flower, leaf and stem had to be useful to botanists as well as convincing to the eye. Lithography gives the petals a softness that engraved line could not, while hand colouring distinguishes raspberry, rose, coral and white. Kept as a set, the four plates preserve both a scientific record and an extraordinary feat of botanical illustration.
Sold as a set of four. Hung two by two they make an instant gallery wall and they are just as good in a long row down a hallway.
The details
- Artist
- Walter Hood Fitch
- Medium
- Four hand coloured lithographs
- Origin
- Found in Edinburgh, Scotland
- Framed size
- 62 × 48 cm framed, each
- Frame
- Slim black timber with museum glass, matching
- Condition
- Excellent, plate titles intact
How it arrives
- Cleaned and checked
- Wrapped in kraft and rope with its story card
- Hand delivered and ready to hang
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