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903579
  • Title
    Item 01: 1-78. Unpublished drawings of Australian orchids, ca. 1879-1891 / by R. D. Fitzgerald
  • Call number
    PX*D 248
  • Level of description
    item
  • Date

    ca. 1879-1891
  • Type of material
  • Reference code
    903579
  • Issue Copy
    Digitised
  • Physical Description
    78 drawings - watercolour and pencil - chiefly 50 x 34 cm
    1 typescript - 22 pages - foolscap
  • Scope and Content
    The drawings feature various orchids and cross-sections of the flower and plant with titles and in some cases, brief descriptions.

    1. Acianthus amplexicaulis
    2. Adelopetalum bracteatum
    3. Bulbophyllum aurantiacum
    4a. Bulbophyllum lichenastrum
    4b. Eria australis
    5. Pterostylis furcata
    6-7. Burnettia cuneata
    8a. Caladenia filamentosa
    8b. Caladenia longicauda
    9. Caladenia pectinata
    10a. Caladenia sericea
    10b. Glossodia Brunonis
    11a. Caladenia tenuis
    11b. Diuris longifolia
    12a. Caleana nigrita
    12b. Glossodia emarginata
    13. Calochilus Robertsonii
    14. Chiloglottis, undescribed species
    15. Cleisostoma Macphersonii
    16. Corysenthes Hamiltonii, undescribed
    17. Cymbidium suave
    18. Dendrobium Adae
    19. Dendrobium Bairdianum
    20. Dendrobium delicatum
    21. Dendrobium fusiforme
    22-24. Dendrobium gracilicaule
    25. Dendrobium Johannis
    26. Dendrobium Kingianum
    27. Dendrobium linguiforme
    28. Dendrobium Mortii
    29. Dendrobium Schneiderae
    30. Dendrobium undulatum
    31. Dendrobium speciosum
    32. Dendrobium tetragonum
    33. Dendrobium Tofftii
    34-35. Dendrobium, undescribed species
    36. Dipodium punctatum
    37a. Diuris aurea
    37b. Diuris punctata
    38a. Diuris emarginata
    38b. Caladenia Cairnsiana
    39a. Diuris pedunculata
    39b. Diuris alba
    40. Diuris sulphurea
    41. Eria Eriaeoides
    42a. Eriochilus dilstatus
    42b. Pterostylis alata
    43. Liparis coelogynoides
    44. Liparis reflexa
    45a. Caladenia flava
    45b. Lyperanthus serratus
    46. Microtis
    47. Microstylis congesta
    48. Phreatia limenophylax
    49a. Prasophyllum cyphochilum
    49b. Prasophyllum cucullatum
    49c. Prasophyllum attenuatum
    50a. Prasophyllum cyphochilum
    50b. Prasophyllum plumaeforme
    51a. Prasophyllum Fimbria
    51b. Caladenia probably undescribed
    52. Prasophyllum Frenchii
    53a. Prasophyllum hians
    53b. Diuris setacea
    54a. Prasophyllum macrostachyum
    54b. Prasophyllum ovale
    55. Prasophyllum patens
    56a. Prasophyllum triangulare
    56b. Microtis alba
    57-58. Prasophyllum truncatum
    59. Pterostylis clavigers
    60. Pterostylis grandiflora
    61a. Pterostylis nana
    61b. Prasophyllum parvifolium
    62a. Diuris laevis
    62b. Pterostylis pyramidalis
    63. Pterostylis species ?
    64.
    65. Spiculoea Huntiana
    66. Spiculoea irritabilis
    67a. Diuris pallens
    67b. Thelymitra aristata
    68. Thelymitra epipactoides
    69a. Thelymitra epipactoides
    69b. Thelymitra grandiflora
    70. Thelymitra venosa
    71. Thelymitra villosa
    72. Lipariz Nugentae
    73. Diuris sp. ?
    74a. Diuris brevissima (undescribed species)
    74b. Diuris sp.
    75a. Thelymitra mucida
    75b. Microtis strata
    76. Prasophyllum FitzGeraldii
    77a. Diuris longifolia
    77b. Caladenia unita
    78. Prasophyllum hians

    An enumeration of the drawings by Dr R. S. Rogers of Adelaide, dated 1933
  • Copying Conditions
    Out of copyright: Artist died before 1955
    Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
  • General note

    Notes written by Reverend H.M.R. Rupp have been inserted into volume.

    Transferred from the Mitchell Library Manuscripts Section, June 1997
    Digital order no:Album ID : 918216
  • Signatures / Inscriptions

    Each drawing has pencil notations with Latin botanical name of the plant, location, and date (sometimes supplying the year)
  • Conservation note

    Drawings removed from album, interleaved and boxed May 2008
  • Exhibited in

    Impact: a changing land - State Library of New South Wales. Applies to: no. 55
    Capturing Flora: Three centuries of Australia - Art Gallery of Ballarat. Applies to: nos. 10a-b; 37a-b
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