Heirloom Fruit Watercolors

Apples · USDA pomological watercolour

Bismarck Apple

Historical USDA watercolour of the Bismarck Apple apple, painted 1873

Bismarck is a heritage apple cultivar that originated in Victoria, Australia (1870). It was grown primarily for cooking, juice.. Large fruit with a yellow-green with red overcolour. The U.S. Department of Agriculture documented it with 2 watercolour studies (1873), painted by Ellen Isham Schutt and Bertha Heiges, as official botanical identification records made before colour photography.

CultivarBismarck
SpeciesMalus domestica
Common fruitApple
Painted1873
Artist(s)Schutt, Ellen Isham, Heiges, Bertha
Specimen originNew York, Monroe, Rochester; Canada
CollectionUSDA Pomological Watercolor Collection
Plates2

All 2 plates

Public domain via the U.S. National Agricultural Library. Plate ids: POM00001612, POM00001615.

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