1888 REICHENBACHIA BUTTERFLY ORCHID PHAL BY MOON

1888 REICHENBACHIA BUTTERFLY ORCHID PHAL BY MOON (image 1/1)
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Orchids Illustrated & Described Frederick Sander Phalaeonopsis stuarttiana We are very pleased to present plates from Frederick Sander�s Reichenbachia, Orchids Illustrated & Described (1888-1894), a work of 192 chromolithograhed plates, some finished by hand. This work is considered by many to be the pinnacle of all the orchid publications of the period. It was named after Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach (1824-1889), a prominent botanist, ornithologist & orchid fancier.Sanders, a native of Ghent & founder of Messsrs Sanders of St Albans, a large nursery firm, intended in this work to illustrate all classes of orchids, drawn life sized & �colored by lithography, or hand painted when found expedient.� He employed as many as 20 orchid collectors in the field, in diverse locations such as Brazil, Columbia, Peru, Ecuador, New Guinea, India, Burma, Mexico, & Madagascar. The massive collection of orchids by such firms to fuel the fancies of the European orchid rage contributed to the extinction of many species in their native habitat. For the illustration of the work he engaged the services of Henry Moon (1857-1905). Moon studied art early on, followed by employment in a solicitor�s office and was subsequently engaged as an illustrator for the magazine The Garden. No expense was spared either in the collection of specimens or the printing read more
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