109 R GEORGE BROOKSHAW (1751-1823) Plants and Fruit, a set of six hand-coloured aquatints, from Pomona Britannica, 17½ x 12½” (6). See illustration
George Brookshaw was an aquatint engraver and publisher of botanical subjects. He is best known for his book Pomona Britannica published 1804-1812, depicting fruit grown in and around London, from which these six plates come.
Exhibited: ‘Hidden Treasures’, a Dreweatt Neate loan exhibition, Donnington Priory, November 1997, exhibit no. 7.
Provenance: Ramsbury Manor, Wiltshire and recorded in the 1965 Inventory in the Chinese Bathroom.
£3,000-4,000
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