Walter Hood Fitch Curtis Palms, Pineapples, Exotics

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AALL PRINTS MEASURE APPROXIMATELY 9 inches by 5 inches


Cocos Plumosa Palm WFC162 ~~$75~~ Sale Price: $35	Nunnezharia Palm WFC303 ~~$75~~ Sale Price: $35	Livingstonia Australian Palm WFC304 ~~$85~~ Sale Price: SOLD

Hedera WFC186 ~~$45~~ Sale Price: $25	Encephalartos Horridus Cycadeae WFC160 ~~$55~~ Sale Price: SOLD	Dracaena WFC305 ~~$45~~ Sale Price: $25

South African Palmite WFC174 ~~$45~~ Sale Price: $25	Areca Baueri, Norfold Island Betel Palm, New Zealand WFC156 ~~$75~~ Sale Price: SOLD	Morenia Fragrans Palm WFC164 ~~$55~~ Sale Price: $29


Chamaerops Fortunei Chusan Palm, China WFC165 ~~$45~~ Sale Price: $25	Mr Cuming's Wine Palm tight left margin WFC166 ~~$45~~ Sale Price: $25	Sea Shore Diplothemium Palm WFC167 ~~$55~~ Sale Price: $29


Ernes Augustus Chamaedorea Palm, male WFC168 ~~$55~~ Sale Price:SOLD	Ernes Augustus Chamaedorea Palm, female WFC169 ~~$55~~ Sale Price: $29	Elegant Chamaedorea Palm WFC170 ~~$55~~ Sale Price: $29


Malortiae Gracilis Palm WFC171 ~~$55~~ Sale Price: $29	Malortiae Simplex Palm WFC172 ~~$55~~ Sale Price: $29	Ghiesbrecht's Geonoma Palm WFC173 ~~$45~~ Sale Price: $25


Paullinia WFC180 ~~$35~~ Sale Price: $17	Anchovy Pear WFC181 ~~$45~~ Sale Price: SOLD	Northolena Fern WFC182 ~~$35~~ Sale Price: $17


Pinnated Hound's Tongu Fern WFC183 ~~$35~~ Sale Price: $17	Lawson Cypress WFC179 ~~$45~~ Sale Price: SOLD	Cheilanthes Fern WFC185 ~~$35~~ Sale Price: $17


Allosorus Fern WFC195 ~~$35~~ Sale Price: $17	Asplenium WFC189 ~~$35~~ Sale Price: SOLD	Pendulous Cypress, China WFC188 ~~$35~~ Sale Price: $17


Llavea Fern WFC192 ~~$35~~ Sale Price: $17	Pterodiscus WFC193 ~~$35~~ Sale Price: $17	Allosorus Fern WFC197 ~~$45~~ Sale Price: $25

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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.