Pomona Britannica: No. 74 - Figs
1807
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
1807
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
You see a single, plump fig resting on a plain background, sliced open to show its juicy insides. This print comes from a book meant to help English gardeners tell one fruit from another. The fig is drawn so carefully you can almost count the tiny seeds. It’s life-size, so you could hold the page up to a real fig and match them. Look up *impasto* to see how other artists built thick paint to make fruit look real enough to touch.
