Iconographie des orchidées du Brésil : dessings originaux

Related Titles

Series: Original botanical illustrations of the Botany Libraries

External Resources

Collection guide: Icon. des orchidées du Brésil: dessings originaux, 1869-1888. Harvard University Botany Libraries

By

Rodrigues, J. Barbosa (João Barbosa), 1842-1909.
Cogniaux, Alfred, 1841-1916
Hoehne, F. C. (Frederico Carlos), 1882-1959
Rolfe, Robert Allen, 1855-1921

Type

Book

Material

Archival material

Publication info

[1869-1888]

Notes

Title from cover.

One of six unpublished volumes of paintings of orchids by Rodrigues. The other five volumes are held in Rio de Janeiro Botanical Garden. The paintings were reproduced in their entirety with historical details, nomenclature, and indexes in "Iconographie des orchidées du Brésil", F. Reinhardt, Basle, 1996. In that book, this volume is referred to as volume 4.

Original paintings mounted on board.

Illustrations are signed and date from 1869 through 1888.

Most illustrations are signed "J. Barbosa Rodrigues, del. d'ap. nat."

Illustrations are numbered in pencil and annoted in various hands including A. Cogniaux, F.C. Hoehne, and R.A. Rolfe.

Bound in vellum with decorated front and back covers by Livaria J. Leite, Livros Sobre o Brasil, Rio.

Subjects

(João Barbosa), , 1842-1909 , Botanical illustrations , Brazil , Orchids , Pictorial works , Rodrigues, J. Barbosa

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.158820
OCLC: 685183573