书名：Heirloom Fruits of America: Selections from the USDA Watercolor Pomological Collection
定价：210.0
ISBN：9781597145060
作者：Daniel J. Kevles
版次：1
出版时间：2020-07

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书名:Heirloom Fruits of America: Selections from the USDA Watercolor Pomological Collection/美国传家宝水果：美国农业部果树水彩精选集
作者：Daniel J. Kevles
出版：Heyday，2020
装帧：精装，128页

尺寸：14.7*21.6 cm

Heirloom Fruits of America features 100 full-color illustrations selected from the U.S. Department of Agriculture Pomological Watercolor Collection, an archive of 7,584 paintings, lithographs, and line drawings created from 1886 to 1942 by about sixty-five commissioned artists. These images served as de facto trademarks in the highly competitive and fraud-plagued American fruit industry in a time before patent protection extended to living organisms. They are also meticulously and beautifully rendered, uncovering a cache of botanical diversity in turn-of-the-century American agriculture. Yale historian Daniel J. Kevles’s introduction deepens viewers’ appreciation of these plates by placing these images in their historical context.