Descriptions of orchid genera [manuscript], 1880-1908

By

Kraenzlin, Fritz, 1847-1934

Bolus, Harry, 1834-1911 , illustrator
Drake, Sarah Anne, 1803-1857 , illustrator
Fitch, J. N. (John Nugent), 1843-1927 , illustrator
Koch, Jeanne, , illustrator
Lehmann, Friedrich Carl 1850-1903 , illustrator
Lowerby, C. C., , illustrator
Stroobant, F. (François), 1819-1916 , illustrator
Laue, Emil, , lithographer
Pannemaeker, Pieter De, , lithographer
Schmidt, Carl Friedrich , lithographer

Type

Collection

Material

Archival material

Publication info

Notes

Notes, sketches, chromolithographs, and printed leaves arranged in rough paper folders, numbered by Kränzlin according to orchid genus number; some notes and drawings are loose, without folders; all materials formerly bundled together in paper wrappers and tied with white cotton cord; now, at time of cataloging, in 11 gray Hollinger boxes.

Digitized with Illinois State Library grant funding, 2018-2020.

Manuscript orchid diagnoses, letters, original botanical sketches, chromolithograph botanical prints, off-prints of journal articles, and leaves of printed texts, dated between 1880 and 1908, compiled by Friedrich ("Fritz") Kränzlin, in Gross Lichterfelde (Berlin),Germany, and used in preparation of his work, Orchidacearum genera et species, only 2 v. of which were published in Berlin by Meyer & Müller (v. 1 in 1901 and v. 2, pt. 1 in 1904). | The bulk of the material consists of small pencil sketches or tracings of orchids on tracing paper, accompanied by Kränzlin's diagnoses, or technical descriptions in Latin of the distinguishing characteristics of the various orchid genera, following a previously-published arrangement, as evidenced by the green cloth book spines, gold-stamped with title "Orchidaceae" and vol. numbers, which are found in each bundle. There are also more detailed original drawings of orchids in pencil, or pen-and-watercolor. Accompanying Kränzlin's copious drawings and notes, are numerous prints of orchids--line-engraved and hand-colored, or chromolithographed-- by well-known botanical illustrators J.N. Fitch, Miss [Sarah Ann] Drake, and Jeanne Koch, by botanists such as Harry Bolus, and F.C. Lehmann. and by lithographers including the Belgian artist François Stroobant, and printed by George Barclay, Emil Laue, L. Snelling, and C.F. Schmidt. Many of these prints have been taken from botanical periodicals such as "The garden", "L'orchidophile", and "Gartenflora". There are also printed leaves from botanical texts, horticultural society proceedings, and periodicals such as "The gardeners' chronicle", and offprints of articles on orchids by Kränzlin and other botanists which appeared in journals including "Queensland agricultural journal", "Garten-Zeitung", and "Gartenflora".

German botanist and orchidologist. | Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig Kränzlin (1847-1934) continued the work of John Lindley, "father of orchidology", and Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach (1823-1889), the foremost German orchidologist of the 19th century, identifying and classifying many new orchid genera and species.

Subjects

19th century , Chromolithographs , Classification , Engravings , Lithographs , Nomenclature , Orchids , Prints , Varieties

Call Number

QK495.O64K74

Language

German

Identifiers

OCLC: 71204130