Page 12 - Barnsley Museums Autumn Winter 2019

Cannon Hall Exhibitions

Pears & Apples
The Botanical Illustrations of Elisabeth Dowle
Sat 25 May 2019 to Sun 3 Nov

Elisabeth Dowle is one of the Apples” by Joan Morgan and The exhibition comes at an
worlds most respected and Alison Richards. important time in the life of
talented Botanical Artists. For Elisabeth has been awarded Cannon Hall Parks & Gardens,
the very first time her beautiful seven Gold Medals by the Royal when indoors meets outdoors.
watercolours of Pears & Apples Horticultural Society, and her work Following a successful application
will be on display in the elegant has been published in fifteen books, to the Heritage Lottery Fund as part
exhibition rooms at Cannon Hall featured on porcelain, in calendars of the Parks for People programme,
Museum. The exhibition will and on seed packets. Her paintings, the gardens have undergone a £2.9
showcase Elisabeth’s beautiful one of which was presented to million renovation. Using archive
illustrations from the Pears & the Princess of Wales, are in many photographs from the Cannon
Apples collection. important private collections and Hall Collection and a specially
institutions, and her “Ribston Pippin commissioned film the exhibition
These life size plates were painted Apple” was selected for inclusion aims to make the connection with
from fruits from the National in the Highgrove Florilegium. In the Cannon Hall Historic pear
Collection and were used to 2014 Elisabeth appeared on BBC collection, walled gardens and
illustrate “The Book of Pears” by Countryfile in a feature about her parkland.
Joan Morgan and “The New Book of work on “The Book of Pears”.