Heirloom Fruit Watercolors

Apples · USDA pomological watercolour

Bramley Apple

Historical USDA watercolour of the Bramley Apple apple, painted 1873

Bramley is a heritage apple cultivar that originated in Nottinghamshire, United Kingdom (1809). It was grown primarily for cooking, juice, cider.. Most widely sold cooking apple in the United Kingdom. The U.S. Department of Agriculture documented it with 2 watercolour studies (1873), painted by Ellen Isham Schutt and Mary Daisy Arnold, as official botanical identification records made before colour photography.

CultivarBramley
SpeciesMalus domestica
Common fruitApple
Painted1873
Artist(s)Schutt, Ellen Isham, Arnold, Mary Daisy
Specimen originMontana, Missoula, Missoula
CollectionUSDA Pomological Watercolor Collection
Plates2

All 2 plates

Public domain via the U.S. National Agricultural Library. Plate ids: POM00001435, POM00001436.

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