Heirloom Fruit Watercolors

Apples · USDA pomological watercolour

Domine Apple

Historical USDA watercolour of the Domine Apple apple, painted 1840–1873

Domine is a heritage apple cultivar that originated in US (before 1831). It was grown primarily for eating. Width 74 mm, height 56 mm. The U.S. Department of Agriculture documented it with 5 watercolour studies (1840–1873), painted by Amanda Almira Newton and Deborah Griscom Passmore, as official botanical identification records made before colour photography.

CultivarDomine
SpeciesMalus domestica
Common fruitApple
Painted1840–1873
Artist(s)Newton, Amanda Almira, Passmore, Deborah Griscom, Arnold, Mary Daisy
Specimen originWest Virginia, Marshall, Cameron; Iowa, Lee, Denmark; New York, Erie, Buffalo; Pennsylvania, Armstrong, Spring Church
CollectionUSDA Pomological Watercolor Collection
Plates5

All 5 plates

Public domain via the U.S. National Agricultural Library. Plate ids: POM00000165, POM00000166, POM00000167, POM00002017, POM00002018.

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