Wealthy Apple, c. 1868 Hand-stenciled Watercolor Illustration from Horticultural Salesman Sample Catalog middle eastern cloth and rather unusual subject matter

and rather unusual subject matter these sensitive seeming men in nature just talking

Who cares what's inside

There is a clean tear along  the bottom edge (as I have it oriented) and a rough long edge from where it was cut out from the album

Produced with local clay

shows a few stains

Wealthy Apple, c. 1868 Hand-stenciled Watercolor Illustration from Horticultural Salesman Sample Catalog middle eastern cloth and rather unusual subject matterHere 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