Half-framed Carson Apple with Half. Antique Print c1905.

by Passmore, Deborah Grisscom

Deborah Passmore lithograph c1905 of Carson Apple.

Charming original chromolithograph by D.G. Passmore, published by Julius Bien and Co. for the United States Department of Agriculture. 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.

Between 1897 and 1925 The Department of Agriculture in the U.S. published Yearbooks of fruit being grown there. Artists were employed to do watercolours and lithographs for illustrations. As they were published essentially to promote the growing of fruit in the United States, there was not an enormous circulation, so these beautiful illustrations are rarely seen today.

In fine condition, measuring 23 x 14cm (9 x 5.5 inches). It is half-framed with antique-white conservation ragmat, and covered with cellophane for presentation and protection - like "Champion Peach", above. External measurement is 340 x 255mm (13 3/8 x 10 inches). (Scanning through cellophane produces reflection, but please email if you would like a scan.)