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   Fitch
   Walter Hood
   W. H. F. ;
   
   
   1817 in Glasglow, Strathclyde / Lanarkshire
   1892
   Kew, London
   
   John Nugent Fitch (1840-1927) (nephew) ;
   training in fabric printing at age 17; botanical illustration from William Jackson Hooker, Regius Professor of Botany.
   United Kingdom
   William Hooker: lectures (1834ff.) ; Niger Flora (1849), Victoria regia (1851), Ferns (1854/60-1), Icon plant. (1836-76) ; Orchidaceous (1851) ; James Bateman: Odontoglossum (1864-74) ; Henslow ; Lovell A. Reeve ; Jeronimo Triana (1826 / 1839-1890) ; George Bentham: Brit. Flora (1865/80) ; John Lindley ; J. D. Hooker: Botany Antartica (1844-59) & Rhododendrons of the Sikkim HImalaya (1849-61), Illustrations of Himalayan plants (1855) & Icones Plantarum (c. 500 plates) ; Henry J. Elves: Genus Lilium (1877-80) ; Richard Henry Beddome (1830-1911) ; W. J. Fitch: Bot. Drawing, Gardeners Chron (1869) ; J. T. I. Syme Boswell (1863-92) ; Thomas Moore: Field Botanist ; Prof. Henslow's Botanical Diagrams. Drawn by W. Fitch, for the Committee of Council on Education: Department of Science and Art, Phaenogamous Plants, printed by Day & Son, 1857 ; Curtis's Botanical Magazine (2700 plates) ;
   official artist for Royal Botanical Gardens at Kew ; Linnean Society ;
   J. F. Cathcart ; lithographer -> James Andrews ; artist -> Matilda Smith ; Worthington George Smith ; J., J. E. & J. de C Sowerby ; -> J. W. Salter draughtsman -> John Stevens Henslow (1796–1861) and his eldest daughter -> Anne Barnard & printer Day & Son in 1857 ;
   botanical drawing, chromolithograph, wood engraving, and etching ; wall-hanging charts ;;
   http://sciweb.nybg.org/science2/Onlinexhibits/exhbtcata.html ; www.nybg.org/plant-talk/2009/03/exhibit-news/lovely-orchid-images-on-display ;
   https://www.anbg.gov.au/biography/fi; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Hood_Fitch ; http://talk.sciencegossip.org/#/subjects/ASC00038hk & 0e3v ; ..
   AKL 40 2004: 515 ; Bull. Nat. Hist. 1915: 277 ; Nissen: Botan. Buchillustration 1966; Zoolog. Buchillustration 1969/78 ; Sawyer 1971: 128 ; Daniels 1974: 28f. ; Sprunger 1986: 11 ; Saunders 1995 ; Secord: Botany on plate, in: Isis 93 (2002): 44f. ; Wheeler 2003: 8, 43, 156-160; Lack: Eden 2008 ; Lewis, Jan [Ellen] (1949-2018): Walter Hood Fitch - A Celebration (London: H. Majesty's Stationery Office & Richmond, Surrey: Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, 1992) ;
   9960 pub. drawings. See also: http://fmhibd.library.cmu.edu/HIBD-DB/ArtCat/recordlist.php?-skip=3175&-max=25 and http://www.huntbotanical.org/art/show.php?12 and http://fmhibd.library.cmu.edu/HIBD-DB/ArtCat/recordlist.php?-skip=30189&-max=25 and http://plantillustrations.org/artist.php?id_artist=66&mobile=0
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