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THE PROPERTY OF THE EXECUTORS OF THE LATE SIR EMMANUEL KAYE C.B.E. (LOTS 301-451)

Publisher George Brookshaw

Pomona Britannica

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Publisher George Brookshaw
Pomona Britannica
Aquatints, part printed in colours, finished in watercolour by hand, fine impressions, on wove paper, six plates from the series, published by George Brookshaw, London, 1807; in very good condition. (Not examined out of the frames.), in marbled and cream mounts and gilt frames
45 x 35cm (plate); 41 x 31cm (image) (6)

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Lot Essay

Botanical illustrations from Pomona Britannica; or, 'A Collection of the Most Esteemed Fruits at Present cultivated in this country...Selected prinicipally from the Royal Gardens at Hampton Court.', 1804-12, issued by the artist George Brookshaw (d. 1823). Brookshaw issued a second edition in 1817, and a less lavish edition entitled 'The Horticultural Repository', appeared between 1820 and 1823 (L. Wood, 'George Brookshaw - The case of the vanishing cabinet-maker: Part 1.', Apollo, May 1991, pp. 301-306).

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