Headlight Grapes bunch lying against grape leaves. Lithograph c1903.

by Passmore, Deborah Grisscom

Beautiful grapes antique print, both sides of leaves.

Original colour-printed lithograph by Deborah Griscom Passmore (1840-1911) for the Yearbook of the United States Department of Agriculture, published in New York in 1911 by The Sackett & Wilhelms Co. 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. She was a skilled botanical artist who worked for the United States Department of Agriculture Division of Pomology for 19 years.

Before the widespread use of photography, between 1897 and 1925, artists were employed by the United States Department of Agriculture to create watercolours of food crops growing in the U.S. Yearbooks were published to promote the cultivation of fruit and vegetables. There was not an enormous circulation, so these beautiful illustrations are rarely seen today.

This lithograph is in fine condition and measures 23 x 14cm (9 x 5.5 inches).