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; "An Apple of first quality; muchesteemed for the table. Flesh white, tender, with....".
ADDITIONAL INFO:
CONDITION: Good condition. Image goes to paper edge on both right and left sides. Small spot along left paper edge.
REFERENCE: Reese "Nineteenth Century American Color Plate Books" #70.
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