'The apple-service' [Sorb apple] Size:M: 75 x 60cm 23rd December 1970

23rd December 1970

A Cavalry Charge

A man with his hands folded and resting on stick

upon which rests a hexagonal ink-well with a quill

'The apple-service' [Sorb apple] Size:M: 75 x 60cm 23rd December 1970Botanical study of the sorb apple, fruit of the service tree (Sorbus domestica), showing fruit on the branch, a single specimen, a cut specimen and its seed. Plate 211 from chapter 1 of Gleanings of natural history, exhibiting figures of quadrupeds, birds, insects, plants, &c, by George Edwards, volume 1 (London, for the author, 1758). The plate is inscribed: 'SORBUM. The Greater Servis of Sorbe apple, in French Corme. Drawn from Nature of natural