Heirloom Fruit Watercolors

Apples · USDA pomological watercolour

Scarlet Pippin Apple

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

Scarlet Pippin is a heritage apple cultivar that originated in Ontario (before 1895). It was grown primarily for eating. Stalk short. The U.S. Department of Agriculture documented it with 2 watercolour studies (1840–1873), painted by Deborah Griscom Passmore and Ellen Isham Schutt, as official botanical identification records made before colour photography.

CultivarScarlet Pippin
SpeciesMalus domestica
Common fruitApple
Painted1840–1873
Artist(s)Passmore, Deborah Griscom, Schutt, Ellen Isham
Specimen originCanada, Ottawa
CollectionUSDA Pomological Watercolor Collection
Plates2

All 2 plates

Public domain via the U.S. National Agricultural Library. Plate ids: POM00003183, POM00003184.

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