Acland’s Cattleya

Cattleya aclandiae

Olive-green barred with maroon, and a lip of shocking magenta.

Book: Edwards’s Botanical Register
Plate: Pl. 48
Artist: for John Lindley, Edwards’s Botanical Register
Date: 1840
Held by: Wikimedia Commons

Pl. 48Cattleya aclandiae

Format

The full-resolution scan, colour-managed to the source — yours to print, study, and explore, down to the stipple.

Size

$29.00

The story

A small Brazilian cattleya with olive-green petals heavily barred in maroon and a lip of magenta so saturated it looks lit from behind. It grows on one particular kind of tree in one dry coastal region of Bahia and nowhere else, which made it precisely the sort of plant the collecting mania of the 1840s was most dangerous to. The Register printed it in the year it flowered in England for the first time. Rarity is a description of a habitat, not a virtue of a plant.

See it on your wall

The garden, brought indoors

Acland’s Cattleya printed large and framed, hung in rooms like yours. Every edition ships ready to become the piece the room is built around.

About this reproduction

A faithful reproduction of a public-domain plate held by Wikimedia Commons — the work is centuries out of copyright (1840).
Printed to order on archival cotton-rag stock, pigment inks rated 100+ years (inscribed pieces and atelier bouquets are set by hand and printed to order).
Colour-managed to the source scan: the hand-colour is the colourist’s, not ours. We correct nothing and invent nothing.
Ships in 5–10 business days, rolled in a heavy-wall tube (framed pieces ship flat-packed).
If it arrives less than perfect, we reprint or refund — your choice.

Why our plates cost more than a poster: we print from the highest-resolution scans in existence, at sizes where the engraving itself becomes visible — the stipple that makes a petal look soft, the wash of the hand-colourist, the veins of the leaf — on stock made to outlive its owner. A poster reproduces the picture. This reproduces the plate.

From the same hand