Citrus Fruit

The first volume to appear in the Natural History series catalogues a group of spectacular drawings of citrus fruit in watercolour and gouache, most of which were commissioned to illustrate Giovanni Battista Ferrari's Hesperides, an ambitious attempt at a complete taxonomy and classification of the entire citrolgical world, which was ...more

Scarce catalog of a Spanish exhibit on the history of the Spanish citrus industry. Chapters include "The Golden Fruit", "Orange as Pretext: The Valencian Painting From Modernism to Regionalism", "Valencian Clothing During the XIXth Century", "The Architecture of the Orange Warehouses", "The Orange Trademarks". The last half of the book ...more