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Image number: RS.9963
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‘The apple-service’ [Sorb apple]
Date
1755
Creator
George Edwards (1694 - 1773, British) , Ornithologist
Object type
Library reference
38029
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 286mm
width (print): 220mm
width (print): 220mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Botanical study of the sorb apple, fruit of the service tree (Sorbus domestica), showing fruit on the branch, a single specimen, a cut specimen and its seed.
Plate 211 from chapter 1 of Gleanings of natural history, exhibiting figures of quadrupeds, birds, insects, plants, &c..., by George Edwards, volume 1 (London, for the author, 1758). Described by Edwards in his accompanying text thus: “This fruit is here represented of its natural bigness: it grows in clusters, or bunches, from three to seven or eight fruits in a bunch. Each separate fruit appears like a little yellowish green apple, tinged with red, on the side which is exposed to the Sun. They are sprinkled with small rising brown spots all over the rind, and have hollow crowns, like apples...”.
The plate is inscribed: “SORBUM. The Greater Servis of Sorbe-apple, in French Corme. Drawn from Nature of natural bigness. Geo.Edwards Del: et Sculp. AD. 1755”.
Plate 211 from chapter 1 of Gleanings of natural history, exhibiting figures of quadrupeds, birds, insects, plants, &c..., by George Edwards, volume 1 (London, for the author, 1758). Described by Edwards in his accompanying text thus: “This fruit is here represented of its natural bigness: it grows in clusters, or bunches, from three to seven or eight fruits in a bunch. Each separate fruit appears like a little yellowish green apple, tinged with red, on the side which is exposed to the Sun. They are sprinkled with small rising brown spots all over the rind, and have hollow crowns, like apples...”.
The plate is inscribed: “SORBUM. The Greater Servis of Sorbe-apple, in French Corme. Drawn from Nature of natural bigness. Geo.Edwards Del: et Sculp. AD. 1755”.
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