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<em>Pomona Britannica </em>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.
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132850
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Pomona Britannica: No. 17 - Plums
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132850
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print
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Pomona Britannica: No. 17 - Plums
description
<em>Pomona Britannica </em>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.
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1806
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CC0
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en
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Q80024897
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26985
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Print
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England, 19th century
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1955.31
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Pomona Britannica: No. 17 - Plums, 1806. George Brookshaw (British, 1751–1823). Aquatint. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of The Print Club of Cleveland in honor of Arnold M. Davis, 1955.310
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PR - Aquatint
didYouKnow
Before publishing his botanical illustrations, Brookshaw was a renowned maker of painted furniture.
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Gift of The Print Club of Cleveland in honor of Arnold M. Davis
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2026-05-29 06:50:11.592000
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132850
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PR - Aquatint
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aquatint
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