Bloomfield Apple with half. DG Passmore lithograph c1900.

by Passmore, Deborah Grisscom

Whole and Half Apple antique print by D.G. Passmore c1905 for the Yearbook of the United States Department of Agriculture, published in New York in 1905 by The Sackett & Wilhelms 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.

The USDA Watercolor Collection documents fruit, vegetable and nut varieties developed by growers around the turn of the 20th century. Technically accurate paintings were used to create lithographs illustrating USDA yearbooks and other publications that were distributed to growers and gardeners across America. Passmore was one of the four principal artists and contributed over 1,000 watercolours and lithographs of fruit.

Image size is 23 x 14cm (9 x 5.5 inches).