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==Biography==
==Biography==

Revision as of 23:59, 30 November 2017

Walter Hood Fitch (28 February 1817 – 1892) was a

lithograph, including 2700 illustrations for Curtis's Botanical Magazine, produced up to 200 plates per year.[2][3]

Biography

Fitch was involved in fabric printing from the age of 17 and took to botanical art after meeting

chromolithographs were based on botanical illustrations provided by Hooker and others, and produced some of his most spectacular results.[5]

Fitch's important works are his illustrations for William Hooker's A century of orchidaceous plants

Athenaeum, "they are accurate, and they are beautiful".[9]

Plate 2, Victoria amazonica, of Victoria Regia, 1851

Other works were for George Bentham's Handbook of the British Flora[10] (1858, later editions edited by Joseph Dalton Hooker). When J. D, Hooker returned from his travels in India, Fitch prepared lithographs from Hooker's sketches for his Rhododendrons of Sikkim Himalaya[11] (1849–51) and, from the drawings of Indian artists, for his Illustrations of Himalayan Plants[12] (1855). He also produced the illustrations presented in the younger Hooker's The Botany of the Antarctic Voyage, consisting of three volumes covering the flora of the Antarctic, New Zealand, and Tasmania collected on the Ross expedition of 1839 to 1843.[3]

A dispute over pay with J. D. Hooker ended Fitch's service to both the Botanical Magazine and Kew in 1877. He was much sought after and remained active as a botanical artist until 1888. Works during this period included Henry John Elwes's Monograph of the Genus Lilium[13] (1877–80). His renown as a botanical illustrator was such that his obituary in Nature stated "... his reputation was so high and so world-wide that it is unnecessary to say much on this point.".[14]

The standard

Linnean Society in 1857.[1]

His nephew, John Nugent Fitch (1840–1927), also produced illustrations for Curtis's Botanical Magazine.

References

  1. ^ a b Lewis, Jan. "Fitch, Walter Hood (1817–1892)".
    doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/54090. (Subscription or UK public library membership
    required.)
  2. ^ "Walter Hood Fitch (1817-1892)". Kew, History & Heritage. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Archived from the original on 2009-01-29. Retrieved 2009-04-03. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  3. ^ a b "Fitch, Walter Hood (1817 - 1892)". Collectors & Illustrators. Australian National Herbarium. Retrieved 2009-03-29.
  4. ^ "Mimulus roseus. Rose-coloured Monkey-flower". Curtis's Botanical Magazine. VIII: Plate 3353. 1834.
  5. ^ "Plants and Gardens portrayed". LuEsther T. Mertz Library. The New York Botanical Garden. Retrieved 2009-03-29.
  6. ^ Hooker, William Jackson (1849), A century of orchidaceous plants selected from Curtis's botanical magazine : consisting of a hundred of those most worthy of cultivation, Reeve, Benham, and Reeve
  7. ^ Bateman, James (1874), A monograph of odontoglossum, L. Reeve, retrieved 21 April 2017
  8. ^ Hooker, Sir W. J. (1851). Victoria Regia : or, Illustrations of the Royal water-lily, in a series of figures chiefly made from specimens flowering at Syon and at Kew. Illustrated by Walter Fitch. London: Reeve brothers.
  9. ^ Allibone, Samuel Austin (1863). A critical dictionary of English literature and British and American authors. Vol. 1. George W. Childs.
  10. ^ Bentham, George (1858). Handbook of the British flora : a description of the flowering plants and ferns indigenous to, or naturalized in, the British Isles. London: Reeve.
  11. ^ Hooker, Joseph Dalton (1849), Hooker, William Jackson (ed.), The rhododendrons of Sikkim-Himalaya : being an account, botanical and geographical, of the rhododendrons recently discovered in the mountains of Eastern Himalaya, London: Reeve, Benham, and Reeve
  12. ^ Hooker, Joseph Dalton; Cathcart, John Fergusson (1855), Illustrations of Himalayan plants :chiefly selected from drawings made for the late J.F. Cathcart, Esq.re of the Bengal Civil Service, Illustrated by Walter Fitch, London: Reeve
  13. ^ Elwes, Henry John (1880). A monograph of the genus Lilium. Illustrated by Walter Fitch. London: Taylor and Francis.
  14. ^ News. Nature 45, 302-302 (28 January 1892)
  15. ISBN 1-84246-085-4
    .
  16. ^ "Fitch, Walter Hood (1817-1892)". Author Details. International Plant Names Index. 2005. Retrieved 2009-04-03.

Further reading

  • Walter Hood Fitch - A Celebration Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, HMSO, London.

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