Plums and Mulberries

This page presents "Plums and Mulberries", created by William Henry Hunt. The catalogue places it in Still Life. The format is landscape. Background on Still Life: Still life, the arrangement of flowers, fruit, tableware, and other objects, became a distinct genre in the Netherlands and Spain in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Dutch vanitas paintings used objects such as skulls, candles, and wilting flowers to remind viewers that time passes.

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English, 1790–1864

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