Mrs. Withers (after)
Musch Musch Apricot
Lady Boughton (after)
The Downton, Rous Lench, Eastnor Castle & Monarch Pears
London: c. 1831
Hand-colored engravings
11 x 9 inches
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Pears & Apricots
For the Horticultural Society of London: c. 1831
For the Horticultural Society of London: c. 1831
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Two fruit engravings prepared for the Horticultural Society of London. The Apricot was produced for the first time in Britain in 1830. It was selected because of its attributes "[a]s the nearest approach to the wild state of the Apricot, as a fruit of considerable intrinsic merit, and as the only one that as far as we know is capable of being dried." The Pears were raised from seedlings by a Mr. Knight. He named the Monarch pear "under conviction that, for the climate of England, it stands without an equal; and because it first appeared in the first year of the reign of our most excellent Monarch [William IV]."