John Nugent Fitch (24 October 1840 – 11 January 1927) was a British botanical illustrator and lithographer, best known for his contribution of 528 plates to ''The Orchid Album'', a landmark work of eleven volumes published between 1872 and 1897. Fitch was the nephew of botanical artist Walter Hood Fitch (1817–1892). Fitch also contributed to Curtis's Botanical Magazine from 1878, joining a select group of illustrators such as William Kilburn, James Sowerby, Sydenham Edwards,

William Jackson Hooker Sir William Jackson Hooker (6 July 178512 August 1865) was an English botanist and botanical illustrator, who became the first director of Kew when in 1841 it was recommended to be placed under state ownership as a botanic garden. At Kew he ...

and Walter Hood Fitch. Fitch also produced plates for ''

Lepidoptera Indica ''Lepidoptera Indica'' was a 10 volume work on the butterflies of the Indian region that was begun in 1890 and completed in 1913. It was published by Lovell Reeve and Co. of London. It has been considered the ''magnum opus'' of its author, Freder ...

'' by

Frederic Moore Frederic Moore FZS (13 May 1830 – 10 May 1907) was a British entomologist and illustrator. He produced six volumes of ''Lepidoptera Indica'' and a catalogue of the birds in the collection of the East India Company. It has been said that Mo ...

. He was also employed by Trevor Lawrence to paint pictures of his orchids. Fitch was elected a fellow of the Linnean Society in 1877.

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Orchid ChromolithographsVideo on The Orchid Album Exhibit
held at the Chicago Botanic Garden Scientific illustrators Botanical illustrators 1840 births 1927 deaths 19th-century New Zealand painters 19th-century New Zealand male artists 20th-century New Zealand painters 20th-century New Zealand male artists Fellows of the Linnean Society of London {{Botanist-stub