Wealthy Apple, c. 1868 Hand-stenciled Watercolor Illustration from Horticultural Salesman Sample Catalog middle eastern cloth missing pages 304-305

missing pages 304-305

like thin cardboard

shows a few stains

Produced with local clay

Wealthy Apple, c. 1868 Hand-stenciled Watercolor Illustration from Horticultural Salesman Sample Catalog middle eastern cloth missing pages 304-305Here a Wealthy apple, and an Alexander peach, listed separately today too I don't find these often, but recently came across a handful, and I just think they're gorgeous. This would have been one page in a salesman sample type horticultural specimen catalogue (unbound, but held together in a folio I believe). It is not a lithograph rather, the apple and leaves here were rendered in a manner akin to a theorem watercolor, using multiple, hand cut