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Doctor Apple showing halved apple. Passmore c1904

Doctor Apple showing halved apple. Passmore c1904

by Passmore, Deborah Grisscom

Antique print of Doctor Apple by D.G. Passmore. Reminds me of the saying, An apple a day keeps the doctor away.

Charming original chromolithograph by D.G. Passmore, published in 1904 by Sackett & Wilhelms Lithographic and Printing Company New York, 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 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.

Image size is 23 x 14cm (9 x 5.5 inches). There is a faint stain half way down the left hand side of this antique print.

Stock Number: apUSap04-51Price: $90.00

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