Prunus, Prunus serotina by Sarah Matilda Parry (1782-1852)
Her family’s Summer Hill estate in England provided Sarah Matilda Parry ample inspiration for her beautiful watercolor paintings focusing on orchard fruits. Though her father planted the cherry trees that yielded the examples illustrated above, he died before the trees bore fruit, prompting Sarah to add the wistful notation, “The produce of these three trees my dear Father never saw.”
