Pear varieties; Pyrus communis: Virgoulee and Doyenne or Saint Michael Pear. Handcoloured stipple engraving of an illustration by George Brookshaw from his own 鈥楶omona Britannica;' London; Longman; Hurst; etc.; 1817. The quarto edition of the original folio edition published from 1804-1812. Brookshaw (1751-1823) was a successful cabinet maker who disappeared in the 1790s before returning as a flower painter with the anonymous 鈥楴ew Treatise on Flower Painting;' 1797.