Ellen Isham Schutt
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Ellen Isham Schutt was an early 20th-century American botanical illustrator for the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Her work now forms part of the USDA National Agricultural Library's Pomological Wate
Ellen Isham Schutt
Watercolor of pecans (Carya illinoinensis) by Ellen Isham Schutt ca. 1904–14. Varieties shown include Taylor, Kennedy, Hodge, Bolton, and Carman.
Watercolor of lemons (Citrus limon) by Ellen Isham Schutt, 1910, showing red rot from five months of cold storage.
Grave of Schutt at Columbia Gardens Cemetery
Royal Charles Steadman
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Royal Charles Steadman was a botanical illustrator and wax fruit modeler for the United States Department of Agriculture who also developed a patented method of strengthening wax fruit with plaster on
Ellen Isham Schutt
…States Department of Agriculture between 1904 and 1914, part of a select cadre of illustrators that included Deborah Griscom Passmore, Amanda Newton, Royal Charles Steadman, J. Marion Shull, and Elsie Lower. During this period, she painted over 700 watercolors of fruits and nuts for the USDA. Her subjects ranged from the…
Steadman painting wax models of fruit in 1935
Fay gooseberry cultivar, watercolor by Royal Charles Steadman, 1916.
Shoemaker apple cultivar showing mold damage, watercolor by Royal Charles Steadman, 1924.