Fruit - From the USDA Pomological Watercolor Collection

Editors of Abbeville Editors of Abbeville Press; Lee Reich

Lifelike and delectable watercolors of fruit--in a book about as tall as a pear Between 1886 and 1942, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Pomology Division--pomology being the study of fruit growing--commissioned an illustrated register of fruits, most of which were painted by women artists. These wa...