John Day (botanist)

John Day (botanist)

John Day (1824 London - 1888) was an English orchid-grower and collector, and is noted for producing some 3 000 illustrations of orchid species in 53 scrapbooks over a period of 25 years. These scrapbooks were donated to Kew in 1902 by his sister, Emma Wolstenholme. [ [http://www.kew.org/exhibitions/johnday/learn/johnday.html Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew: Exhibitions: John Day Scrapbooks: ] ]

Day was born in the City of London in 1824, the son of a wealthy wine merchant whose hobby was growing tropical orchids. [ [http://ftp.rbgkew.org.uk/exhibitions/johnday/learn/johnday.html Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew: Exhibitions: John Day Scrapbooks: ] ] Between 1863 and 1888 at the height of orchidmania in Victorian England, John Day painted and sketched orchids from his own collection in Tottenham, London nurseries, and the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and visited the tropics to see orchid habitat at first hand. A large number of his illustrations depict plants he had coaxed into flower and are the first-known images of species. He maintained close links with Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach, the orchid taxonomist at the University of Hamburg, who named several species in honour of Day.

In 2004 Thames and Hudson published a collection of John Day's artwork in "A Very Victorian Passion: The Orchid Paintings of John Day" by Phillip Cribb and Michael Tibbs, two leading authorities on Orchidaceae, who provide a detailed review of the history, background, and botany of the orchids depicted. This book has become a valuable archive of the best of Day's orchid illustrations.

References

*Cribb, Phillip and Michael Tibbs. "A Very Victorian Passion: The Orchid Paintings of John Day". Kew: Blacker Publishing and Thames and Hudson, 2004. ISBN 0-500-97015-7

External links

* [http://www.kew.org/exhibitions/johnday/galleries/index.html Gallery at Kew]


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