Apples · USDA pomological watercolour
Sweet Winesap Apple
Sweet Winesap is a heritage apple cultivar that originated in US (before 1854). It was grown primarily for eating. A medium to large sized apple. The U.S. Department of Agriculture documented it with 3 watercolour studies (1860), painted by Amanda Almira Newton and Bertha Heiges, as official botanical identification records made before colour photography.
| Cultivar | Sweet Winesap |
|---|---|
| Species | Malus domestica |
| Common fruit | Apple |
| Painted | 1860 |
| Artist(s) | Newton, Amanda Almira, Heiges, Bertha |
| Specimen origin | Pennsylvania, Lackawanna, Scranton; Michigan, Lenawee, Holloway |
| Collection | USDA Pomological Watercolor Collection |
| Plates | 3 |
All 3 plates
Public domain via the U.S. National Agricultural Library. Plate ids: POM00003488, POM00003521, POM00003522.
