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Honeysuckle - 3 Varieties.

  • ARTIST: Dellon Marcus Dewey

  • MEDIUM: Pochoir,

    DATE: c.1865.

  • EDITION SIZE: Paper size 8 3/4 x 5 5/8" (222 x 143 mm).

  • DESCRIPTION: From Dewey's Pocket Series - Colored from Nature. Out of Rochester, New York, this color plate was made and bound with other fruit & flower plates and used by nursery salesman to visually represent the 'product' they were selling. "In the early period the plates were usually produced by stencil and hand coloring,.... Chromolithography gradually replaced the hand-finished plates and became the primary medium by the mid-1880's." - Reese. Text; "Climbing. Thrive in any locality or soil."

  • ADDITIONAL INFO:

  • CONDITION: Good condition and color save for some minor smudging.

  • REFERENCE: Reese "Nineteenth Century American Color Plate Books" #70.