Heirloom fruits of America: selections from the USDA pomological watercolor collection

"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 se...

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Weitere Verfasser: Kevles, Daniel J. 1939- (ZusammenstellendeR)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Berkeley, California Heyday [2020]
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Zusammenfassung:"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"--
Beschreibung:Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 17
Beschreibung:122 Seiten Illustrationen (farbig)
ISBN:9781597145060

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