Curtis Botanical – Plate 7142 – Beautiful Sac-lip Orchid

Original antique black-and-white botanical print from Curtis's Botanical Magazine — Plate 7142.

Plant: Saccolabium Bellinum (Beautiful Sac-lip Orchid). Native to: Southeast Asia (Myanmar / Thailand).

Now known as Gastrochilus bellinus — intricate white-and-yellow flowers with a pouch-shaped lip. The stranger the flower architecture, the higher Victorian collectors paid. Found in the mountain forests of Myanmar and Thailand.

Printed in London. Each print is an original page removed from a bound volume of Curtis's Botanical Magazine, the world's oldest continuously published botanical journal (founded 1787). Uncolored plate. Sold individually. Minor age-related toning consistent with 19th-century paper.

This is an original uncolored (plain) plate from leftover publisher stock of Curtis's Botanical Magazine, printed in London. It was issued uncolored and never bound. We bought the holding at the estate of a Chicago rare bookseller. Labels and stock papers from the British dealer Wheldon & Wesley came with it. Library stamps, when present, are noted on the listing.