Cleveland Museum of Art

Pomona Britannica: No. 17 - Plums

George Brookshaw

Date: 1806
Medium: aquatint
Culture: England, 19th century
Department: Prints
Institution: Cleveland Museum of Art

Pomona Britannica illustrates fruits cultivated at Hampton Court Palace’s gardens, the most celebrated around London. It was devoted to the most handsome varieties of fruit cultivated in England. Most of the 90 plates in this large and sumptuous book, like these, have dark aquatint backgrounds. Before publishing his botanical illustrations, Brookshaw was a renowned maker of painted furniture.

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