Tomatoes
1808
paint
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
1808
paint
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Dominant colour
Tomatoes is a 1808 paint by Unknown, a Romanticism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This painting shows one ripe tomato and two green ones on a plain background. The artist used fine English paper made by Whatman, known for quality. The tomato’s red skin has tiny highlights where light hits. British travelers in the 1700s and 1800s brought back exotic plants and paintings of them. Botanists loved studying new species, and people grew curious too. Look for more botanical art at the Victoria and Albert Museum.
A rectangular watercolour on Whatman paper depicts a botanical study of a tomato vine with serrated-edged leaves in two shades of green. Small green and larger red tomatoes appear along the vine, positioned to the left and right respectively, against a plain background.
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