The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of May 17, 2022

Twelve Months of Fruit: August

1732

Henry Fletcher

(British, active 1715-38)

England, 18th century

Engraving, hand-colored

Gift of The Print Club of Cleveland in memory of A. Donald Gray 1945.243

Location

not on view

Description

Robert Furber, one of the best-known plant dealers in London, published Twelve Months of Flowers and Twelve Months of Fruit in 1730 and 1732, respectively. These deluxe sales catalogues, the first ever produced in England, display some 400 flowers and 370 fruits arranged according to the months in which the flowers and fruit bloom or ripen. At least two dozen American plants are pictured, as the flora of the colonies quickly became available in Europe.

Exhibition history

The Perennial Garden: 18th and 19th Century Botanical Prints. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 3-July 31, 1983).

The Flowering of the Botanical Print. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (March 26-July 3, 2016).

Source URL: https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1945.243