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Blunt, Wilfrid, and William T. Stearn. The Art of Botanical Illustration. New revised and extended ed. Woodbridge, Suffolk: Antique Collectors' Club in association with the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, 2000. (Ch. 20 is devoted to Fitch.)
Carlquist, Sherman, and Martin L. Grant. "Studies in Fitchia (Compositae): Novelties from the Society Islands; Anatomical Studies," from the journal Pacific Science (1963): 282-298. Internet Archive. Web. 26 November 2025.
Desmond, Ray. “Walter Hood Fitch 1817-1892: A Centenary Tribute.” The Kew Magazine 9, no. 1 (1992): 21–27. http://www.jstor.org/stable/45066956.
Elwes, Henry John. A monograph of the genus Lilium. Illustrated by W.H. Fitch. London: Taylor & Francis, 1877. Internet Archive". Web. 26 November 2025.
Endersby, Jim. Imperial Nature: Joseph Hooker and the Practices of Victorian Science. Chicago: Chicago University Press, 2010.
Fielding, Stephen. "Walter Hood Fitch – Botanic Illustrator & neighbour to the Grove Gardens Chapel." Habitats & Heritage. Web. 26 November 2025. https://habitatsandheritage.org.uk
Hemsley, W. Botting. “Walter Hood Fitch, Botanical Artist, 1817-1892.” Bulletin of Miscellaneous Information (Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew) 1915, no. 6 (1915): 277–84. Jstor. Web. 26 November 2025. https://doi.org/10.2307/4104572.
Lewis, Jan. "Fitch, Walter Hood (1817–1892), botanical artist and lithographer." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Online ed. Web. 26 November 2025.
"Mimulus Roseus." Curtis's Botanical Magazine. Vol. VIII (1 October 1834): 3353. Internet Archive. Web. 26 November 2025.
Parker, Lynn. "Walter Hood Fitch - an 'incomparable botanical artist.'" Kew. Web. 26 November 2025. https://www.kew.org/read-and-watch/walter-hood-fitch-an-incomparable-botanical-artist
"W.B.H." (doubtless W. Botting Helmsley). "W.H. Fitch." The Gardener's Chronicle. 2 July 1887: 12. Google Books. Free ebook.
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