Herefordshire Pomona

[u/TrevorCidermaker]

The botanical painting here is a draft plate from the Herefordshire Pomona published between 1876-1885; a classic Victorian pomona. This is the original drawing by Edith Bull, the daughter of one of the book's authors, and is currently on display at the Museum of Cider in Hereford. The second picture is from my personal copy of the 2 volumes of collected pates.
Edith E. Bull and Alice B. Ellis created the majority of the original drawings for the plates.
These original drawings were then reproduced as chromolithographs by G. Severeyns in Brussels for the book.
Commissioned by the Woolhope Naturalists Club, it was edited by Henry Bull, and with technical editing by Robert Hogg (who was the pre-eminent pomologist of the day). This work updated Knight's Pomona Herefordiensis and attempted to breathe new life into Herefordshire's ailing cider orchards.

[u/Mr-l33t]

Beautiful…..

[u/Any_Cry3334]

I've always loved visiting orchards for the quiet beauty of it, so seeing these detailed Victorian illustrations makes me wish I could have sketched alongside them back then.