The Twelve Months of Fruit

An abundance of fruit, in the grand manner.

Book: from The Twelve Months of Fruit
Artist: after Pieter Casteels III, pub. Robert Furber
Date: 1732
Held by: Cleveland Museum of Art · via Wikimedia Commons

Format

The full-resolution scan, colour-managed to the source — yours to print, study, and explore, down to the stipple.

Size

$29.00

The story

The companion to Furber's famous flower calendar: twelve lavish arrangements of the fruits of each season, heaped in the Baroque taste. Pears, grapes, peaches, and figs rendered with the same abundance that made the *Twelve Months* the most fashionable prints in Georgian England. For the kitchen, the dining room, the orangery.

See it on your wall

The garden, brought indoors

The Twelve Months of Fruit printed large and framed, hung in rooms like yours. Every edition ships ready to become the piece the room is built around.

The Twelve Months of Fruit framed on the wall

About this reproduction

A faithful reproduction of a public-domain plate held by Cleveland Museum of Art · via Wikimedia Commons — the work is centuries out of copyright (1732).
Printed to order on archival cotton-rag stock, pigment inks rated 100+ years (inscribed pieces and atelier bouquets are set by hand and printed to order).
Colour-managed to the source scan: the hand-colour is the colourist’s, not ours. We correct nothing and invent nothing.
Ships in 5–10 business days, rolled in a heavy-wall tube (framed pieces ship flat-packed).
If it arrives less than perfect, we reprint or refund — your choice.

Why our plates cost more than a poster: we print from the highest-resolution scans in existence, at sizes where the engraving itself becomes visible — the stipple that makes a petal look soft, the wash of the hand-colourist, the veins of the leaf — on stock made to outlive its owner. A poster reproduces the picture. This reproduces the plate.

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