Subpagina van Chef’s Special: highlights from the collections
Plant parts of potato Solanum tuberosum L. cv. Alemaria by Antonia Koornneef, 1971 Watercolour and pencil, 20.5 x 29.4cm. This scientific drawing of several stages of growth of a potato was made by Antonia (‘Tonie’ or ‘Tons’) Koornneef (16 May 1919 to 12 December 2012). She worked at the ‘Government Institute for Research on Varieties
Malus x purpurea ‘Aldenhamnensis’ Who isn’t cheered up by a drawing of a crab apple blossoming in spring? The drawing was made by Wil Brand (later Wil Wessel-Brand) and dated 14 May 1968. At the time, Wil Brand worked at the Laboratory for Botany and Geography of Wageningen Agricultural College. This botanical pen drawing is
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Drawing by Suzon van Bovene-Beynon (1896, Batavia – 1968, The Hague) of black spot disease in cauliflower. WUR Image Collections boasts 880 of her beautiful and accurate illustrations of plant diseases and pests. Suzon van Bovene-Beynon worked at the experimental station for greenhouse vegetable and fruit cultivation in Naaldwijk between 1946 and 1955. She was
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Malus ‘John Downie’ This detailed drawing by Elisabeth Riemer-Gerhardt is dated 21 September 1956. Elisabeth Riemer-Gerhardt was born in 1930 in Buitenzorg (former Netherlands East Indies, now Indonesia). She worked in the Biosystematics department of the Agricultural College in the 1950s and 1960s. Besides her work as a botanical illustrator, she also decorated ceramics. Elisabeth
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Allium roseum L. Miss H.G.D. (Ike) Zewald was appointed as artist to the Botanical section of Wageningen Agricultural University. She produced drawings for the various publications of the institute, including PhD theses, from the very start of H.C.D. de Wit’s (1909-1999) tenure as professor of botany. The drawing you see here was used in the
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Daucus carota ssp. sativus (Hoffm.) Arcangeli This bunch of carrots could well be sold in a shop today thanks to the work of KromKommer, a company set up by WUR students and others to ‘save’ fruit and vegetables that have been rejected due to their shape or appearance by selling them or processing them into
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