The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Pomological Watercolor Collection is an archive of some 7,500 watercolor botanical illustrations created for the USDA between the years 1886 and 1942 by around fiv
Watercolor by Deborah Griscom Passmore of Berry variety of peach (Prunus persica), 1905.
Watercolor by Amanda Newton of Japanese persimmon (variety Hachiya), 1915.
Watercolor by Mary Daisy Arnold of the Manhattan variety of strawberries (Fragaria species), 1911.
Watercolor by Elsie E. Lower of diseased Lisbon lemon (Citrus limon), 1910.
Amanda Newton (illustrator)
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Amanda Almira Newton was a botanical illustrator for the U.S. Department of Agriculture who specialized in watercolors of fruit. Her work is now preserved in the USDA's Pomological Watercolor Collecti
Pomological Watercolor Collection
…collection's 7584 watercolors were created by just nine of the artists, of whom six were women. The top three contributors were Deborah Griscom Passmore, Amanda Almira Newton, and Mary Daisy Arnold, who each painted over 1000 watercolors and between them are responsible for half the collection. Passmore's watercolors in…
Amanda A. Newton Evening Star Sun May 23 1915
Trapp variety of avocado (Persea species), with specimen originating in Miami, Florida; watercolor by Amanda Newton, 1916.
Champion quince (Cydonia oblonga); watercolor by Amanda Newton, 1909.