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I greatly enjoy the exquisite drawing and watercolours that people make of our nature. This nicely little service publishes once each day pictures from the USDA of apples and related fruits. (They are on X/Twitter but stopped the daily tweets last year). https://botsin.space/@pomological

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Maybe it’s just my small sample size, but I’m surprised at how many of the artists are women given the dates. I wonder if there is something about botanical illustrations that was particularly inviting to women of the time.

Botanical illustration.

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