> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 840](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33120971) of TL-2 Vol. I > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/2760-1) LSID 2760-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1102060) QID Q1102060 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Fitch, Walter Hood (1817-1892), Scottish botanical artist, illustrator of many of the publications by the Hookers, of the Botanical Magazine 1834-1877. **Abbreviated name**: *W. Fitch* \[standard form in IPNI: *Fitch*\] #### Original drawings Originals for the Botanical Magazine at K; for a full list of books and articles illustrated by W. F. Fitch see Hemsley (1915). The estimated total of Fitch's published drawings is 9600-10.000, of which 5300 coloured. *Ref*.: Hemsley, Bull. misc. Inf. Kew 1915: 277-284, 392. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 1: 546; BB p. 109; BL 2: 214; Bossert p. 127; GFB p. 56; Jackson p. 221, 238; MW p. 52; NI 632. - Britten, J. Bot. 30: 64, 100-101. 1892 (portr.) - Huxley, Life and letters J. D. Hooker 2: 242, 533. 1918. - Nelmes and Cuthbertson, Bot. Mag. Dedications 1827-1927: 166-168. 1932 (portr.) - Rickett, NAF 28B(2): 330. 1945. - Blunt, The art of botanical illustration 223-228, 298. 1950. - Desmond, Med. Biol. Illustr. 19(4): 255-259. 1969 (on his figures for J. D. Hooker's Flora Tasmaniae) (portr.) - Daniels, Artists from the R.B.G. Kew 28-29. 1974 (portr.) - Anderson, Garden J. 25(4): 98-103. 1975 (portr.) #### Composite works Fitch illustrated works by G. Bentham, H. J. Elwes, J. D. Hooker, W. J. Hooker, J. E. Howard, D. Oliver, W. W. Saunders, B. C. Seemann, J. L. Stewart, and Syme, afterwards: J. T. Boswell. (see Hemsley 1915, l.c.) #### Eponymy *Fitchia* J. D. Hooker (1845); *Fitchia* C. F. Meisner (1855). ### Publications ##### n.1798. Illustrations of the British flora **Title** *Illustrations of the British flora*: a series of wood-engravings, with dissections, of British plants, drawn by W. H. Fitch, F. L. S. and W. G. Smith, F.L.S., forming an illustrated companion to Mr. Bentham's Handbook and other British Floras. London (L. Reeve & Co.) 1880. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Ill. Brit. fl.* **Notes** *Co-author*: Worthington George Smith (1835-1917), British botanical artist and mycologist. *Companion volume* to: G. Bentham, *Handbook of the British flora* ed. 3 (1866) and following editions. The wood engravings are for the greater part taken from the second edition of the *Handbook* (1865) q.v. *Ed. 1*: publ. Nov-Dec 1879 (t.p. 1880 but see J. Bot. 17: 380 and Nat. Nov. Nov 1879), p. \[i-v\], 1-328, *1306 ills. Copies*: HH, NY. *Ed. 2*: London (id.) Apr-Jun 1887, "second edition, revised and enlarged, " (p. vi: 22 Mar 1887), p. \[i\]-viii, \[1\]-346, *1310 ills. Copies*: HH, US. *Ed. 3*: London 1892, "third edition, revised and enlarged" (Nat. Nov. Nov 1892), p. \[i\]-viii, \[1\]-347, *1315 ills*. *Ed. 4*: London (id.) 1897, "fourth edition," p. \[i\]-viii, \[1\]-347, *1315 ills. Copy*: NY. *Ed. 5*: London (id.) 1901, p. \[i\]-viii, \[1\]-347, *1315 ills. Copy*: HH. *Ed. 6*: London (Lovell Reeve & Co.) 1905. Oct., p. \[i\]-viii, \[1\]-347. *Copy*: MO. *Ed. 7*: London (id.) 1908, p. \[i\]-viii, \[1\]-347, *1315 ills. Copy*: HH. *Ed*. \[*8*\]: London (id.) 1912, Oct., p. \[i\]-viii, \[1\]-347, *1315 ills. Copy*: MO. *Fourth revised edition* (second issue): London (id.), 1919 (p. vi: Jul 1919), p. \[i\]-xvi, 1-338, *1315 ills. Copy*: BR. *Fifth revised edition*: London (id.) 1924 (p. vi: Jul 1924), p. \[i\]-xxvii, \[1\]-338, *1315 ills*. *Copies*: BR, G, HH, NY. – With additions by Worthington George Smith (1835-1917) and others. *idem*: Ashford, Kent (L. Reeve & Co.), 1931, p. \[i\]-xxvii, \[1\]-338, *1315 ills. Copies*: MO, NY. *Fourth reprint*: Ashford, Kent (id.), p. \[i\]-xxvii, \[1\]-338, *1315 ills. Copy*: L. *Fifth reprint*: Ashford, Kent (id.), p. \[i\]-xxvii, \[1\]-338, *1315 ills. Copy*: MO. *Ref*.: NI 632.