Walter Hood Fitch

Botanical illustrator (1817-1892)

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Images from the collections

Images by Walter Hood Fitch

18 images from works
  • Giant water lily (Victoria amazonica): an expanded flower with surrounding leaves and buds. Coloured lithograph by W. Fitch, c. 1845, after himself.
  • Quillwort (Isoetes echinospora): entire plant with spores and floral segments. Coloured lithograph by W. Fitch, c. 1863, after himself.
  • Giant water lily (Victoria amazonica): an opening flower with surrounding leaves and buds. Coloured lithograph by W. Fitch, c. 1845, after himself.
  • Flamingo flowers (Anthurium scherzerianum): flowers and leaves. Coloured lithograph, c. 1862, after W. Fitch.
  • Giant water lily (Victoria amazonica): twenty one different anatomical segments of the plant. Coloured lithograph by W. Fitch, c. 1845, after himself.
  • A pear plant (Pyrus communis): flowering and fruiting stems. Coloured zincograph by C. Chabot, c. 1876, after W. Fitch.
  • Five tropical orchids, all varieties of the genus Masdevallia: flowers and leaves. Coloured lithograph, c. 1873, after W. Fitch.
  • Five plums (Prunus domestica) in a bed of leaves. Chromolithograph, c. 1877, after W. H. Fitch.
  • A peach plant (Prunus persica): flowering and fruiting stems. Coloured zincograph by C. Chabot, c. 1876, after W. Fitch.
  • A fig plant (Ficus carica var.): fruiting stem and leaf. Coloured lithograph, c. 1869, after W. Fitch.

Works from the collections

Frequent collaborators

William Curtis

Related topics

Botany
Plants, Cultivated
Plants, Ornamental
Flowers
Tropical plants
Orchidaceae
Plants, Edible
Aquatic plants
Fruit
Water lilies