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George Brookshaw Print of Pears from Pomona Britannica, Dated 1807

$2,000
£1,515.75
€1,816.13
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George Brookshaw Pears Pomona Britannica Plate LXXXVI Hand-Colored Aquatint 1807 English, London, Dated 1807 This hand-colored aquatint is Plate LXXXVI from George Brookshaw’s Pomona Britannica, the most ambitious English color-plate book devoted to fruit, and shows the Cadillac, the Paddington and the St. Martial pears against the deep brown aquatinted ground that distinguishes the work. A single pear, flushed with red on its sunward side, hangs above from a short woody spur between broad serrated leaves. Below, two tapering green pears hang from separate twigs: the one at left beside a cluster of smaller leaves tinged russet at their edges, the one at right beneath a spray of long, narrow leaves, its skin freckled with fine russet dots. The plate is an aquatint with stipple engraving, printed in color and finished by hand, the stipple work carrying the bloom on the skins and the soft gray-green modeling of the leaves. It is presented in a gilt frame with an acid-free mat and Museum Glass. Dimensions: Framed height: 26¼ inches (66.7 cm) Framed width: 21¼ inches (54 cm) Framed depth: ¾ inch (1.9 cm) Inscriptions: Lettered below the image within a ruled cartouche: “PLATE LXXXVI”, and beneath, “Painted & Published as the Act Directs by the Author G. Brookshaw 1807”. Provenance: Earle D. Vandekar of Knightsbridge References: Gordon Dunthorne, Flower and Fruit Prints of the 18th and Early 19th Centuries, Washington, 1938, no. 50. Sacheverell Sitwell and Wilfrid Blunt, Great Flower Books 1700–1900, revised edition, London, 1990, p. 81. Claus Nissen, Die botanische Buchillustration, Stuttgart, 1951, no. 244. Sandra Raphael, An Oak Spring Pomona, Upperville, Virginia, 1990, no. 40a. Historical Context: George Brookshaw (1751–1823) was born in Birmingham and by 1777 had established himself in London as a cabinetmaker, supplying painted furniture to the Prince of Wales. No furniture by him is recorded after the mid-1790s, and he re-emerged under the name G. Brown as a flower painter and drawing master. Pomona Britannica was issued in parts from 1804 and completed as a folio in 1812, printed by T. Bensley and dedicated to his former patron, by then Prince Regent. Its ninety plates record 256 varieties of fruit, eleven of the plates given to pears, drawn largely from the royal gardens at Hampton Court and Kensington and from other gardens around London, among them the Princess of Wales’s at Blackheath. The dark grounds and deliberately arranged compositions set the work apart from the plainer scientific illustration of the period. Ref: NY9424-mrrx
  • Creator:
    George Brookshaw (Designer)
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 26.25 in (66.68 cm)Width: 21.25 in (53.98 cm)Depth: 0.75 in (1.91 cm)
  • Style:
    Georgian (Of the Period)
  • Materials and Techniques:
    Paper
  • Place of Origin:
    England
  • Period:
    Early 19th Century
  • Date of Manufacture:
    1807
  • Condition:
  • Seller Location:
    Downingtown, PA
  • Reference Number:
    Seller: NY9424-mrr1stDibs: LU861020478602

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