Charles Reginald Aston Tree in a Landscape ca. 1880 watercolor Yale Center for British Art |
George Barret the Elder Tree Study with Stags before 1784 drawing Yale Center for British Art |
Thomas Carmichael Tree Study ca. 1880 albumen print National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh |
Thomas Cole Gnarled Tree Trunk ca. 1826 drawing Detroit Institute of Arts |
John Constable after Claude Lorrain Trees and Deer 1825 drawing Yale Center for British Art |
John Constable Fir Trees at Hampstead 1820 drawing Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
Thomas Sidney Cooper Tree Study ca. 1850 drawing Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
John Sell Cotman Traveler in a Woodland Landscape 1806 drawing Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio |
David Cox Study of Tree with Fisherman ca. 1810 etching Philadelphia Museum of Art |
John Crome Study of a Tree Trunk before 1821 drawing National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne |
William David Tree Study ca. 1855-65 oil on canvas Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool |
Francis Seymour Haden The Latest Tree 1882 etching and drypoint Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio |
James Duffield Harding Study of Tree Trunks ca. 1850 drawing Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
Frederick William Hayes Two Trees, Beddgelert Village ca. 1890 oil on paper, mounted on canvas Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson Ivy-Covered Tree at Colinton ca. 1846 salted paper print Getty Museum, Los Angeles |
Robert Hills Beech Trees ca. 1820 watercolor Yale Center for British Art |
from Orchard End, or, The Laboratory of Continuous Effort
An apple tree bent double with fruit
grew in the middle of the living room
shaking gently
as the average family pootled by with plates
or devices in their hands
The room was almost all tree
everyone edged around it
Curiously no one picked a single apple
nor did the ripe fruit ever fall
– Penelope Shuttle (2016)