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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.
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Works from the collections

27 works

    • Pictures

    A gladiolus cultivar (Gladiolus Lady Alice Hill): flowering stem. Chromolithograph, c. 1868, after W. H. Fitch.

    Walter Hood Fitch | Date: 1868 | Reference: 28134i
    • Books
    • Online

    Illustrations of the principal natural orders of the vegetable kingdom / prepared for the Science and Art Department of the Council of Education by Professor Oliver ; the plates by W.H. Fitch.

    Daniel Oliver | Date: 1874
    • Pictures
    • Online

    Giant water lily (Victoria amazonica): twenty one different anatomical segments of the plant. Coloured lithograph by W. Fitch, c. 1845, after himself.

    Walter Hood Fitch | Date: 1845 | Reference: 26759i
    • Pictures
    • Online

    An orchid (Otochilus fusca): flowering stem and floral segments. Coloured engraving by J. Swan, c. 1842, after W. Fitch.

    Walter Hood Fitch | Date: 1 January 1842 | Reference: 25844i
    • Pictures
    • Online

    Flamingo flowers (Anthurium scherzerianum): flowers and leaves. Coloured lithograph, c. 1862, after W. Fitch.

    Walter Hood Fitch | Date: [1862-84] | Reference: 28063i
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Frequent collaborators

William Curtis

Related topics

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

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