Heirloom Fruit Watercolors

Apples · USDA pomological watercolour

Oldenburg Apple

Historical USDA watercolour of the Oldenburg Apple apple, painted 1873–1875

Oldenburg is a heritage apple cultivar that originated in Geisenheim, Germany (1897). It was grown primarily for eating. P Minister von Hammerstein x Baumanns Renette. The U.S. Department of Agriculture documented it with 7 watercolour studies (1873–1875), painted by Mary Daisy Arnold and Royal Charles b. Steadman, as official botanical identification records made before colour photography.

CultivarOldenburg
SpeciesMalus domestica
Common fruitApple
Painted1873–1875
Artist(s)Arnold, Mary Daisy, Steadman, Royal Charles b., Schutt, Ellen Isham
Specimen originWest Virginia, Morgan, Sleepy Creek; Maryland, Montgomery, Takoma Park; Maryland, Montgomery, Forest Glen Park; Michigan, Oceana, Shelby
CollectionUSDA Pomological Watercolor Collection
Plates7

All 7 plates

Public domain via the U.S. National Agricultural Library. Plate ids: POM00000366, POM00000445, POM00000446, POM00000447, POM00000460, POM00004047, POM00004275.

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