Heirloom Fruit Watercolors

Apples · USDA pomological watercolour

Sutton Beauty Apple

Historical USDA watercolour of the Sutton Beauty Apple apple, painted 1840

Sutton Beauty is a heritage apple cultivar from Sutton, Massachusetts. It was grown primarily for eating. Flesh is whitish, crisp, tender, juicy, subacid. 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.

CultivarSutton Beauty
SpeciesMalus domestica
Common fruitApple
Painted1840
Artist(s)Passmore, Deborah Griscom
Specimen originNew York, Ontario, Geneva
CollectionUSDA Pomological Watercolor Collection
Plates1

Public domain via the U.S. National Agricultural Library. Plate id: POM00003686.

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