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Vibrant Orchid and Clivia: A Botanical Duo from Van Houtte's Collection, c.1875
£205 ($270, €240)
Period original, not a reproduction.
Shipped from the Netherlands, flat, insured and tracked, worldwide. Returns accepted within 14 days.
- Date
- 1875
- Size
- 6.4 × 9.8 in (16.3 × 25 cm)
- 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
- Late 19th century
- Artist or book
- Louis van Houtte
- Section
- Botanical
- Reference
- f_41423842
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.
