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
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.
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
Royal Charles Steadman
…Administration and South buildings. He died on August 6, 1964, in Banning, California. USDA's National Agricultural Library holds his watercolors in its Pomological Watercolor Collection and also has a small archive of his papers from the period 1923–1928. Media related to Royal Charles Steadman at Wikimedia Commons…
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.