1853 Peach, A. Bivot, pomology, fruit, 35cm fine hand colour

Exquisite hand colour, folio plate from: 

Annales de pomologie belge et étrangère,

Première année (1853), sous la direction d'Alexandre Bivort, F. Parent, imprimeur-éditeur.

Grosse Mignonne

Exquisite hand colour.

35 x 26 cm

From the first year of this famous and most beautiful publication.

The colorist has treated these specimens with great delicacy, thrilling with the effect of dew and haze, fuzz and shine. In the 19c Belgium became the center of scientific fructiculture, and developed a robust tradition of pomological illustration.

“Of all the pomological publications, published around the middle of last century this is without doubt the most important one and also the most beautiful" (Hortus Belgicus 67).

Some faint offsetting (as always).