Heirloom Fruits of America - Selections from the USDA Watercolor Pomological Collection (Hardcover)

Heirloom Fruits of America features 100 full-color illustrations selected from the U.S. Department of Agriculture Pomological Watercolor Collection, an archive of 7,584 paintings, lithographs, and line drawings created from 1886 to 1942 by about sixty-five commissioned artists. These images served as de facto trademarks in the highly competitive and fraud-plagued American fruit industry in a time before patent protection extended to living organisms. They are also meticulously and beautifully rendered, uncovering a cache of botanical diversity in turn-of-the-century American agriculture. Yale historian Daniel J. Kevles’s introduction deepens viewers’ appreciation of these plates by placing these images in their historical context.

General

Imprint:	Heyday Books
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	August 2020
Introduction by:	Daniel J. Kevles
Dimensions:	215 x 139mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	128
ISBN-13:	978-1-59714-506-0
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Art forms, treatments & subjects > Painting & paintings > Watercolours Books > Science & Mathematics > Biology, life sciences > Botany & plant sciences > General Books > Professional & Technical > Agriculture & farming > Horticulture > General
LSN:	1-59714-506-8
Barcode:	9781597145060

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