Cleveland Museum of Art

Twelve Months of Fruit: August

Henry Fletcher

Date

1732

Medium

engraving, hand-colored

Culture

England, 18th century

Department

Prints

Institution

Cleveland Museum of Art

Robert Furber, one of the best-known plant dealers in London, published Twelve Months of Flowers and Twelve Months of Fruit in 1730 and 1732, respectively. These deluxe sales catalogues, the first ever produced in England, display some 400 flowers and 370 fruits arranged according to the months in which the flowers and fruit bloom or ripen. At least two dozen American plants are pictured, as the flora of the colonies quickly became available in Europe.

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