Orchid Collection (#10)

Stanhopea insignis, orchid
Watercolour from Delineation of exotic plants cultivated in the Royal Garden at Kew (1796) by Franz Andreas Bauer (1758-1840). Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Flower from the Orchidaceae family
A photograph of one of the decorative ceiling panels from the roof of the Natural History Museums Central Hall. Showing an unknown flower of the Orchidaceae family

Dendrobium densiflora, orchid
A photograph of one of the decorative ceiling panels from the roof of the Natural History Museums Central Hall. Showing Dendrobium densiflora, orchid from Asia

Dactylorhiza fuchsii, common spotted orchid
Common spotted orchid on chalk mound, a project to establish british orchigs in the Wildlife Garden at the Natural History Museum, London. Photographed by Derek Adams, May 2003

Orchis morio, green-winged orchid
Watercolour by Arthur Harry Church, May 1903. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Cattleya aurantiaca (orchid) growing in a shade coffee plantation in El Salvador

Orthoceras, nautiloid
Shown here is Orthoceras, a straight Ordovician nautiloid

Calochilus paludosus, R. Br
Annotated drawing by Ferdinand Bauer, Calochilus paludosus R. Br. Prodr.: 320 (1810) Irchidaceae. Br. 204. From a specimen from New South Wales, Australia

Plate 77 from British Orchids

Pterostylis nutans R. Br
Annotated drawing by Ferdinand Bauer of Pterostylis nutans, 1810, Orchidaceae

Laceolabinuin rubra, tree orchid
Plate 22 by Margaret Bushby Lascelles Cockburn (1829-1928). Held at the Natural History Museum, London

Vanilla aromatica, vanilla
Plate 34 by Margaret Bushby Lascelles Cockburn (1829-1928). Held at the Natural History Museum, London

Aerides iindleyanum, rock orchid
Plate 65 from Neilgherry birds and Miscellaneous (1858) by Margaret Bushby Lascelles Cockburn (1829-1928)

Habernaria logicalearata, orchid and Lilium neilgherrense, l

Catasetum macrocarpum, monkshead orchid
Illustration from Delineation of exotic plants cultivated in the Royal Garden at Kew (1796) by Franz Andreas Bauer (1758-1840). Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Orchideae
Plate 155 from The Chief Natural Orders of Plants (1849). Illustrated and described by Elizabeth Twining (1805-1889)

Dendrobium speciosum, rock orchid
Illustration 48 from the Collection of Drawings by George Raper, held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Bletia verecunda, tropical orchid
Illustration from Delineation of exotic plants cultivated in the Royal Garden at Kew (1796) by Franz Andreas Bauer (1758-1840). Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Plate 64 from British Orchids
Watercolour from British Orchids (1792-1817), by Franz Andreas Bauer (1758-1840). Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Plate 79 from British Orchids
Watercolour from British Orchids (1792-1817), by Franz Andreas Bauer (1758-1840). Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Phalaenopsis mariae, marias phalaenopsis. Taken from Burbiges sketch book

Phalaenopsis luteola, yellowish phalaenopsis. Taken from Burbidges sketch book

Plate 33 from British Orchids
Watercolour from British Orchids (1792-1817), by Franz Andreas Bauer (1758-1840). Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Masdevallia chimaera, orchid
Illustration by Arthur Harry Church, 1912. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Ophrys purpurea, orchid
Illustration by Arthur Harry Church, 1906. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Cattleya forbesii, cattleya orchid
Finished watercolour by Sydney Parkinson made during Captain James Cooks first voyage across the Pacific, 1768-1771. Illustration annotated Epidendrum bifolium

Rodriguezia rigida, orchid
Finished watercolour by Sydney Parkinson made during Captain James Cooks first voyage across the Pacific, 1768-1771. Illustration annotated Epidendrum corniculatum

Stigmaphyllon ciliatum, orchid vine
Finished watercolour drawing by Sydney Parkinson made during Captain James Cooks first voyage across the Pacific, 1768-1771. Illustration annotated Banisteria ciliata

Dendrobium discolor, golden orchid
Finished watercolour by Fred Polydore Nodder from an original outine drawing by Sydney Parkinson made during Captain James Cooks first voyage across the Pacific, 1768-1771

Dendrobium rigidum, orchid
Finished watercolour by Fred Polydore Nodder from an original outine drawing by Sydney Parkinson made during Captain James Cooks first voyage across the Pacific, 1768-1771

Dendrobium canaliculatum, teatree orchid
Finished watercolour by Fred Polydore Nodder from an original outine drawing by Sydney Parkinson made during Captain James Cooks first voyage across the Pacific, 1768-1771

Big-beaked Birds

Cymbidium ensifolium, purple striped orchid
Cymbidium ensifolium haematodes, a purple striped orchid. 1893

Plants / Orchid
A lovely species of orchid (Orchis Cymbidium), at the annual Royal Horticultural Show, Wisley Gardens, Surrey, England. Date: 1970

Plants / Ophrys Muscifera
related to the BEE ORCHID (ophrys apifera) but this one attracts flies Date: late 19th century

Pretty Japanese girl
A Pretty young Japanese girl in a floral kimono, posing seated at a table alongside some orchids

Pretty white orchid
A couple of fronds of a pretty white orchid plant spill out of a glossy grey vase with a thin elegant stem. Airbush painting by Malcolm Greenwmith

Cypripedium Barbatum
Ladys Slipper Orchid

Woman Graduate C1890
A young woman poses in mortar board and gown for her graduation photograph amid the clutter of a victorian photographic studio

Cypripedium Calceolus
Slipper Orchid (French) Sabot De Venus

Plants / Orchis Morio
a native British orchid species

Plants / Orchis Mascula
Early Purple Orchid

Dryden / Garden / Allah / 231
Costume design for Marlene Dietrichs orchid chiffon dress

Cattleya Loddigesii
a species of orchid

Zygopetalum Maxillare
var ANDERSONIANUM an ORCHID species

Plants / Laelia Elegans
var WOLSTENHOLMIAE an ORCHID species

Cattleya Warscewiczu
a species of ORCHID

Plants / Orchis Militaris
MILITARY ORCHID

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