Walter Hood Fitch Curtis Palms, Pineapples, Exotics

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Agave
WFC204
$45
Sale Price: $25
Alocasia, no text
WFC205
$35
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ALL PRINTS BELOW MEASURE APPROXIMATELY 9 inches by 5 inches
   
Echinostachys Bromeliad
WFC211
$35
Sale Price: $17
Aechmea Bromeliad
WFC212
$35
Sale Price: $17
Anchomanes
WFC237
$35
Sale Price:
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Apteranthes Stapelia Cactus
WFC217
$35
Sale Price: $17
Mr Plant's Stapelia Cactus
WFC218
$45
Sale Price: $25
Sororia Stapelia Cactus
WFC219
$45
Sale Price: $25
Cotyledon
WFC220
$35
Sale Price: $17
Aloe Cactus
WFC221
$35
Sale Price: $17
Canna
WFC222
$35
Sale Price: $17
Tillandsia Bromeliad
WFC223
$35
Sale Price:
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Echinocactus Cactus
WFC224
$45
Sale Price:
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Puya Bromeliad
WFC208
$35
Sale Price: $17
Philodendron
WFC252
$35
Sale Price: $17
Phyllocactus Cactus
WFC227
$45
Sale Price:
SOLD
Caladium
WFC229
$45
Sale Price: $25
Clavija
WFC238
$35
Sale Price: $17
Guzmannia Aechmea Bromeliad
WFC215
$35
Sale Price: $17
Billbergia
WFC226
$35
Sale Price: $17
Dasylirium
WFC247
$35
Sale Price: $17
Clusia
WFC248
$35
Sale Price: $17
Adenium
WFC253
$35
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Walter Hood Fitch Curtis Palms, Pineapples, Exotics

William Curtis began publication of the Botanical Magazine in February 1787 and continued almost without interruption for 160 years. After Curtis edited the first 13 volumes, the publication continued under the editors: John Simms (1800-1826), William Jackson Hooker (1827-1865) and Joseph Dalton Hooker (1865-1904). The images were engraved and hand-coloured by many artists including Sydenham Edwards, William Graves, James Sowerby, John Curtis, William Jackson Hooker, W.H. Fitch, Matilda Smith, Lillian Snelling and Stella Rose Craig. The plates are known for their fine detail and delicate hand coloring. The prints are all copper engravings to Volume 70 & then stone or zinc lithography until the introduction of color printing in 1948. It is the longest running botanical magazine and was entirely hand colored until 1948. References: Blunt (1994) pp 211 - 217, Great Flower Books pp 156 - 157, Nissen BPI 2350, Staflue 1290.

These Curtis prints are from the Walter Hood Fitch years, the time of a long collaboration between Fitch and the editor of the magazine, Sir William Jackson Hooker. It was a partnership which lasted over 40 years, during which time Fitch was the sole artist for Curtis Botanical Magazine & Kew Gardens. Sadly, this creative partnership was dissolved after a financial dispute, which both parties regretted, but never resolved.

Walter Hood Fitch was the greatest botanical artist of his time and we are exceptionally pleased to have such a good selection of his finest work. The prints are much rarely than the earlier Curtis, as may fewer were published, so it is doubly satisfying to offer to Curtis collectors.


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