Spider Orchid
Spider Orchid (Brassia arcuigera) — Curtis's Botanical Magazine (Pl. 5748) · Walter Hood Fitch · 1869.
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Where it works
Spider orchid flowers trail long thread-like yellow petals barred brown from white lips, hanging in a row beside dark green leaves on Fitch's 1869 plate on cream. It suits a hallway or a study with white or sage walls at 16×24 in a slim black frame, near the Swan Orchid.
Style, size & framing detail
- Style
- Antique botanical plate
- Era
- 19th century
- Orientation
- Portrait
- Palette
- ochre, dark green, cream
- Mood
- graphic, airy
- Rooms
- hallway or entryway, study or library, kitchen, bathroom, bedroom
- Good gift for
- plant lovers, her
Size. We'd hang this one at 16×24. Prints at 12×18, 16×24, 24×36 in — 12×18 for a shelf, desk or a gallery-wall grid; 16×24 above a desk, console or in a hallway; 24×36 as the statement piece above a sofa or bed.
Framing. A slim black or natural wood frame right to the plate edge; the plate's own margin frames the subject.
Pairing. Pairs as a set of three with other botanical prints (10% off three or more).
Details & materials
Shipping & returns
About this design
The Madten promise
The cream specimen edition
The same plate set on a soft cream ground with a typeset specimen label — a gallery-ready print.
