Coffman Apple above Half. Lithograph by E.I. Schutt.

by Schutt-Blackburn, Ellen Isham

Small antique print of Apples, lithograph printed c1909.

Original lithograph by Ellen Isham Schutt-Blackburn (1873-1955), printed by the American Lithographic Company and published in 1909 for theYearbook of the United States Department of Agriculture. Ellen Schutt was an artist with the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture Division of Pomology from 1904 to 1914.

Between 1897 and 1920 Yearbooks were published to illustrate the wide range of fruit produced in the United States. From 1905 to 1925, the New York State Agricultural Experiment Station published a series of seven monographs on hardy fruits as part of their annual report.  Ulysses Prentiss Hedrick (1870-1951), continued the series over a period of 18 years, with larger photolithographs for six volumes on grapes, plums, cherries, peaches, pears and small fruits. 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.

This small lithograph measures 23 x 14cm (9 x 5.5 inches).