Heirloom Fruit Watercolors

Apples · USDA pomological watercolour

Black Sweet Apple

Historical USDA watercolour of the Black Sweet Apple apple, painted 1840

Black Sweet is a heritage apple cultivar that originated in US (before 1820). It was grown primarily for baking, cider. Width 82 mm, height 67 mm. The U.S. Department of Agriculture documented it with a watercolour study (1840), painted by Deborah Griscom Passmore, as official botanical identification records made before colour photography.

CultivarBlack Sweet
SpeciesMalus domestica
Common fruitApple
Painted1840
Artist(s)Passmore, Deborah Griscom
Specimen originNew York, Orange, Mountainville
CollectionUSDA Pomological Watercolor Collection
Plates1

Public domain via the U.S. National Agricultural Library. Plate id: POM00002594.

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