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Like a fruit bowl that offers a variety of flavours in one place, these resources bring together diverse materials that sit outside the site's major themes while adding to the richness of Western's Digital Scholarship holdings.

This painting shows various pieces of fruit arranged in a thin white bowl, including apples, peaches, green and purple grapes, cherries, pears, and plums. Some of the fruit is overflowing from the bowl, and rests on the white surface below, surrounding the bowl. Many of the pieces of fruit have thin stems attached to them, and some have thick green leaves. Behind the fruit, the background is dark brown, and there is a tan arched border around the painting.
Robert Seldon Duncanson, Fruit Still Life, c. 1849, oil on canvas. National Gallery of Art, Washington, Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase through a gift from the Reserve for Purchase of Works of Art, 1968), Accession No. 2014.136.106. Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington.