Lycaste Skinnerii armeniaca. Sander's Reichenbachia orchid lithograph c1890.
by Moon, H.G.
Superb large antique print of rare Lycaste orchid.
Fine original lithograph after a watercolour by landscape painter and botanical artist Henry George Moon (1857-1905), who as illustrator for the magazine The Garden, and skillfully represented flowers in a natural manner for Reichenbachia: Orchids Illustrated and Described published in London between 1888 and 1894 by Hanover-born nurseryman Henry Frederick Conrad Sander (1847-1920).
A nursery-worker from the age of 20, Sander set up his own nursery after Prague explorer and plant collector Benedict Roezl began sending him orchids and tropical plants to sell on consignment. With an aim of illustrating life-size orchids of every class, Sander employed collectors to travel the world, employed artists and lithographers, and named his grand monograph Reichenbachia after German botanist Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach (1824-1889), who devoted his life to studying orchids.
Page size is 530 x 395 mm (20.75 x 15.5 inches). This lithograph has minor damage at left lower edge which would not show when framed. (Price reduced.) It is a beautiful lithograph and is otherwise in fine condition.
Stock Number: apSR18Price: $460.00