Wealthy Apple, c. 1868 Hand-stenciled Watercolor Illustration from Horticultural Salesman Sample Catalog antique weight 43/4" t x 1 1/4"

43/4" t x 1 1/4" x 1 1/4"

this double exposure snapshot is a perfect case in point--and a perfect thing

nothing fussy or perfect about it

hence the image of Athena at the bottom center of the plate

making them indexical on two different levels

Wealthy Apple, c. 1868 Hand-stenciled Watercolor Illustration from Horticultural Salesman Sample Catalog antique weight 43/4" t x 1 1/4"Here 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