British botanical illustrator and lithographer John Nugent Fitch (1840–1927) is best known for the 528 plates he contributed 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). John Nugent 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 and Walter Hood Fitch. He was also employed by Trevor Lawrence to paint pictures of his orchids. In 1877 he was elected a fellow of the Linnean Society.
