Scratched print 50%. Trapp Avocado lithograph by Passmore, c1905.

by Passmore, Deborah Grisscom

Antique print of an Avocado by Passmore c1905.

Antique lithograph by D.G. Passmore for the Yearbook of the United States Department of Agriculture, published in New York in 1907 by Julius Bien & Co.

Original colour-printed lithograph by Deborah Griscom Passmore (1840-1911), a skilled botanical artist who worked for the United States Department of Agriculture Division of Pomology for 19 years. Passmore received a strict Quaker education prior to moving from Delaware to study at the School of Design and Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia.

Image size is 23 x 14cm (9 x 5.5 inches). There is a faint scratch on the surface of this image.