Item HCO/1/3/1 - Painting of Victoria Plums

Extent: 1 board, 18 individual (pasted on)

Paintings (watercolour?) of plums on board (44.5 x 35.5 cm): 18 watercolours of plums on individual white card pasted to cream board (each approx. 4.5 x 8 cm), entitled (bottom, middle) 'Seedlings from Prunus Domestica, var. Victoria, selfed'. Top row: top left: two black plums on a leafed branch labelled ''Prunus spinosa 2n=32'; top middle: one apricot coloured plum labelled 'Prunus Domestica var. Victoria, 2n =48'; top right: two plums; one yellow and one purple, labelled 'Prunus Duaricata 2n +16'. Below these are three rows of five individual plums in a variety of colours (red, orange, yellow, green, black and purple) numbered from left to right: top row: 36, 35, 46, 358, 23; midd. row: 5, 143, 35, 186, 71; bott. row: 217, 81, 23, 10, 144. Published in: MB Crane 'Cultivated plants of the past, present, and future', in Endeavour 2 (1943).