Twelve Months of Fruit: August (1732): Art, History and Details

Twelve Months of Fruit: August (1732) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Henry Fletcher (British, active 1715–38).

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

Robert Furber, one of the best-known plant dealers in London, published Twelve Months of Flowers and Twelve Months of Fruit in 1730 and 1732, respectively. These deluxe sales catalogues, the first ever produced in England, display some 400 flowers and 370 fruits arranged according to the months in which the flowers and fruit bloom or ripen. At least two dozen American plants are pictured, as the flora of the colonies quickly became available in Europe.

Object facts

• Title: Twelve Months of Fruit: August
• Date: 1732
• Creator attribution: Henry Fletcher (British, active 1715–38)
• Culture: England, 18th century
• Type: Print
• Technique: engraving, hand-colored
• Collection: PR - Engraving
• Department: Prints
• Accession number: 1945.243

Collection credit

Gift of The Print Club of Cleveland in memory of A. Donald Gray

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