THE CACTUS HOUSE, KEW GARDENS

© TfL from the London Transport Museum Collection

Part of the Mabey Collection

THE CACTUS HOUSE, KEW GARDENS 1922

Frank Newbould (1887 – 1951)

Details

Dimension
76 X 50.5 CM
Media
Accession number
M/B80

Summary

London's Kew Gardens houses over 30,000 different species of living plants. The Cactus House was  devised to house the collection of Mrs A Sherman Hoyt, a Californian woman whose collection of cacti was the toast of 1929's Royal Horticultural Society show. Two of her specimens can be seen on this poster. She also donated a painting of a desert scene and various sands and rocks to augment the display. The Cactus House was opened to the public on March 24th 1930. Kew Gardens as a whole attracts over a million visitors per year and is housed in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames.

JH

Glossary

  • Painting

    Work of art made with paint on a surface. Often the surface, also called a support, is a tightly stretched piece of canvas, paper or a wooden panel. Painting involves a wide range of techniques and materials, along with the artist's intellectual concerns effecting the content of a work.