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; "A Native of Vermont. Tree an unusually strong upright grower and perfectly hardy. The fruit is of best quality very perfect and keeps well until early spring. Color dark green when gathered in fall, but becomes yellowish with a red check as it matures. A splendid variety for the north."
ADDITIONAL INFO:
CONDITION: Fair condition with original color.
REFERENCE: Reese "Nineteenth Century American Color Plate Books" #70.
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