Background

These Orchid prints are from The Botanical Register, published in England from 1815 to 1847.  During this period over 2700 "exotic plants cultivated in British gardens" were presented.  The Register was founded by Sydenham Edwards (1769?-1819), one of the original illustrators for Curtis's Botanical Magazine, after he severed his relationship with Curtis.  Following his death in 1819, the majority of the botanical illustrations for The Register were completed by M. Hart and Miss Drake.  The text accompanying each print was authored by the British botanist and artist John Lindley.

Type of print:  Original hand-colored copper engraving from the 1830s

Original page of background text is provided with each print.

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Available through June 30, 2002

Pallid Bletia
(Bletia florida)

$100

Sweet-scented Epidendrum
(Epidendrum odoratissimum)

$100

SOLD
Knotty Brasavola
(Brasavola nodosa)

$90

Green Maxillaria
(Maxillaria viridis)

$100

One-sided Aceras
(Aceras secundiflora)

$90

SOLD
Red-edged Cymbidium
(Cymbidium marginatum)

$100

SOLD
Large-flowered Lady's Slipper
(Cypripedium macranthos)

$110

Loddiges' Cirrhaea
(Cirrhaea Loddigesii)

$100

Pale Yellow Maxillaria
(Maxillaria decolor)

$100

Pimpled Saccolabium
(Saccolabium papillosum)

$90

SOLD
Spotted Gongora
(Gongora maculata)

$90

Clustered Calanthe
(Calanthe densiflora)

$100

SOLD
Lurid Catasetum
(Catasetum luridum)

$100

Dingy Monk-flower
(Monachanthus discolor)

$90

Lady Amherst's Grobya
(Grobya amherstiae)

$100