Digitated lemon
c. 1640RCIN 919358
In the treatise for which this drawing was made, Giovanni Battista Ferrari commented that ‘while we are horrified by monstrosities in human beings, we love them in fruit’. The deformity here is caused by the action of a mite on the flower bud.
watermark: Eagle ?15 (cut) [On sheet]
watermark: D & C Blauw [On mount sheet]