Masdevallia backhousiana

Location

Country: UK
City: London
Place: Government Hospitality, Lancaster House

Henry George Moon was a landscape and botanical painter. He exhibited nine works at the Society of British Artists in Suffolk Street, nine at the Royal Academy and at least four at the New English Art Club and the New Water-Colour Society. His works are predominately landscape views of Essex and Hertfordshire and studies of flowers. Moon lived at two addresses in the Kentish Town area of London, before moving to St. Albans, Hertfordshire, towards the end of his life.

Places

Subjects

orchid

Materials & Techniques

lithograph, chromolithograph

Artist

Henry George Moon (1857 - 1905)
Joseph Mansell (1803 - 1874)

Title

Masdevallia backhousiana

Date

published 1888-1890

Medium

Chromolithograph

Acquisition

Purchased from Thomas Thorp, October 1963

GAC number

6293