George Brookshaw (1751-1823), Blue Muscadine Grape, PL XXXVIII Yale

George Brookshaw (1751-1823), Blue Muscadine Grape, PL XXXVIII YalePrint Sz: 11 1 2"H x 9 1 2"W Frame Sz: 19 1 4"H x 16 3 4"W Publisher: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown Plate XXXVIII George Brookshaw, also known as G. Brown, was a notable English painter and illustrator from London. His early career was spent as a London cabinet maker specializing in painted furniture, often with floral decorations. Brookshaw also published supplementary drawing manuals on fruit, flowers, and birds. Pomona Britannicaa London 1804

and includes a reproduction of the Second Earl of Godolphin's Stud-book and other important contemporary papers related to the thoroughbred horse

The Borrowers is a series of children's fantasy novels by Mary Norton about tiny people who live in the homes of big people and "borrow" things to survive while keeping their existence unknown

Mint Julip

It is registered as a California Historical Landmark

We were all killing ourselves to be his model

w/ sixteen illustrations by Henry Alken

and a "how to" primer on fox-hunting

up-and-coming glass artisan Gerald Logan

and it's often the stories that the tour guide didn't tell you as you wandered in wonderment around the grand houses that are the most revealing and entertaining

German Biedermeier

initially worked as a sketch artist for the cinema and a dressmaking firm in Paris in the early 1920s

Basis for a 1969 film starring Burt Lancaster