The Tradescants' Orchard: The Mystery of a Seventeenth-Century Painted Fruit Book

by Hanneke Grootenboer and Barrie Juniper

In the early seventeenth century, England's leisured classes took an eager interest in fruits from the Mediterranean and beyond, introducing species from abroad into the kitchen gardens and orchards of grand homes. A charming collection of sixty-six early watercolors showing fecund trees with fruits hanging heavily from their branches, The Tradescants' Orchard is a testament to these broadening horticultural horizons. The Tradescants' Orchard reproduces...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1851242775
• ISBN13: 9781851242771
• Release Date: June 2013
• Publisher: Bodleian Library
• Length: 120 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.7" x 11.9"