Pierre-Joseph Redouté (Belgian, 1759-1840)
Watercolor for plate 346: “Larger Yellow Ladyslipper” Ependendrum cochleatum
Prepared for Les Liliacées ca. 1802-1816
Watercolor and graphite on vellum
Completed: ca. 1802-1816
Vellum size: 18 3/8 x 13 1/4 in.
Frame: 25 x 19 1/2 in.
Signed ‘P.J. Redouté’ lower left

Country of Origin: Central and northern South America (West Indies, Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana) radiating to Florida. Encyclia has the same Greek root as ‘encyclopedia’ in allusion to the labellum embracing the gynostemium.

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