Word: brookshaw
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...first walked the earth, we've had trouble turning down fruit, and by 1800 the Western world was in something of a fruit frenzy. People wanted specimens to look at, to study, to paint, to read about, to display, to write about and, occasionally, to eat. In 1804 George Brookshaw, a London cabinetmaker who specialized in furniture adorned with paintings of fruit, turned his full attention to cataloguing and depicting fruit. His primary mission was to educate. "Some of our best fruits have been suffered to be neglected," he wrote. Pomona Britannica, published in 1812 and reprinted for the first...
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