Broderies et abeilles
The USDA Pomological Watercolor Collection documents fruit and nut varieties developed by growers or introduced by USDA plant explorers around the turn of the 20th century. Technically accurate paintings were used to create lithographs illustrating USDA bulletins, yearbooks, and other series distributed to growers and gardeners across America.
Fast Facts:
- Time period: 1886 to 1942, with the majority created between 1894 and 1916.
- Content: 7,584 watercolor paintings, lithographs and line drawings, including 3,807 images of apples.
- Fruit origins: The plant specimens illustrated originated in 29 countries and 51 states and territories in the U.S.
- Artists: The paintings were created by approximately twenty-one artists commissioned by USDA for this purpose. Some works are not signed.
Fêtes sauvages traditionnelles et costumées en Allemagne.
Le Groupe ornithologique normand (GONm), le Groupe d'étude des Invertébrés Armoricains (GRETIA), le Groupe mammalogique normand (GMN), l'Observatoire batracho-herpétologique normand (OBHEN), les Parcs naturels régionaux Normandie-Maine et des marais du Cotentin et du Bessin et le Conservatoire des sites naturels de Haute Normandie sont heureux de vous accueillir sur leur outil de saisie en ligne de données naturaliste.
Flickr: Galerie de Sam Droege
Scammon, Charles Melville. The marine mammals of the north-western coast of North America :described and illustrated : together with an account of the American whale-fishery. San Francisco : J. H. Carmany ; New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1874.
