Pomona Britannica: No. 10 - Cherries
1805
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
1805
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
You see a single branch of bright red cherries against a plain gray background. Brookshaw painted this for a book that taught rich landowners how to tell one fruit from another. The cherries are life-size, so you could hold the page next to a real branch and compare. He used a printmaking method that lets him build soft, smoky shadows—no hard lines. If you like how quiet and exact this feels, look up “sfumato.”
