Downing Grape antique lithograph by D.G. Passmore c1901.

by Passmore, Deborah Grisscom

Gorgeous chromolithograph of Downing Grape by Passmore.

Grapes antique print by D.G. Passmore for the Yearbook of the United States Department of Agriculture, published in New York in 1901 by Julius Bien and Company.

Original colour-printed lithograph by Deborah Griscom Passmore (1840-1911) who received a strict Quaker education prior to moving from Delaware to study at the School of Design and Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia. Passmore was a skilled botanical artist who worked for the United States Department of Agriculture Division of Pomology for 19 years.

The paper of this lithograph is slightly age-discoloured. Image size is 23 x 14cm (9 x 5.5 inches)