Vibrant Orchid and Clivia: A Botanical Duo from Van Houtte's Collection, c.1875

1875 · Birds, Plants & Natural History

Vibrant Orchid and Clivia: A Botanical Duo from Van Houtte's Collection, c.1875

Name: Vibrant Orchid and Clivia: A Botanical Duo from Van Houtte's Collection, c.1875
Brand: American Maps and Prints
SKU: BG-13761-10 and BG-13761-11
Price: 270 USD
Availability: InStock

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Date: 1875
Kind: Birds, Plants & Natural History
Size: 16.3 × 25 cm (6.4 × 9.8 in)
Condition: Good. Given age. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Colors are vivid, lower border cut short. Please study scan carefully.
Period: The Gilded Age
Reference: BG-13761-10 and BG-13761-11

What the condition grades mean

Excellent: Bright and clean, with no faults worth mentioning.
Very good: Only light signs of age, such as faint toning.
Good: Normal signs of age for a sheet of this period: toning, some foxing, small marks or neat old repairs.
Fair: Clear faults such as staining, tears or repairs, priced to match.

Every fault we see is written in the condition note, and the whole sheet is shown uncropped in the photos.

Guaranteed original. This is an original of the period stated, not a later reproduction or print-on-demand copy. If it is ever shown to be otherwise, we refund you in full.

Shipping to the United States. Sent from our gallery in Langweer, the Netherlands, flat between boards or rolled in a tube, and fully insured. Delivery and import charges.

About this piece

Scarlet Sophronitis and a clivia, two chromolithographs. The first is from Louis van Houtte's Flore des Serres et des Jardins de l'Europe, lettered "Sophronitis coccinea Rchb. fil.", with the origin "Rio-de-Janeiro" and the note "Serre chaude". The second is lettered "Hemanthophyllum Mme Van Houtte" and shows a clivia.

On the first sheet, a tuft of dark green leaves on a mossy base carries a group of bright scarlet-orange flowers with rounded petals. The second sheet shows a clump of long, strap-shaped, arching leaves with a rounded head of orange funnel-shaped flowers on a stout stem at the top, and a single flower in the foreground opened to show its yellow throat and stamens.

Hemanthophyllum was an old name for the clivia, a South African plant, and the lettering on the second plate is in a different style from the first, so it may come from a different publication than Van Houtte's series. The Brazilian orchid on the other sheet is native to the mountains near Rio de Janeiro.

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