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Caravata Plant Botanical Illustration by Louis van Houtte, 19th Century

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Caravata Plant Botanical Illustration by Louis van Houtte, 19th Century

£120 ($160, €140)

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Date
Not stated
Size
9.4 × 6.3 in (24 × 16 cm)
Condition
Good. The condition of this print is good, with vibrant colors and clear details that have been well-preserved over time. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scans carefully.
Artist or book
Louis van Houtte
Section
Botanical
Reference
f_41290902

Evelyna caravata, a chromolithograph from Louis van Houtte's Flore des Serres et des Jardins de l'Europe, issued in Ghent in the nineteenth century. The sheet is lettered "Evelyna caravata Lindl.", with the origin "Guiane" and the cultivation note "Serre chaude" (warm greenhouse).

Two flowering stems rise from the base, each topped with a pink-purple head of pointed bracts from which clusters of yellow flowers burst. The leaves are long, pleated and deeply ribbed, in strong green, and a small root tuft shows at the foot. In the lower right a large yellow flower is drawn with its fringed lip and a pink bract, and numbered dissections 1 to 4 in outline show the parts of the flower and its column, as botanical plates of this kind do.

The plant is an orchid from the Guianas, and the plate is the work of the Ghent firm that published the series.

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