Stunning Montefiore Grapes lithograph Half-Price! Hedrick c1908.

by Hedrick, U.P.

Wonderfully realistic grapes antique print. Foliage and fruit. Spectacular artwork with crisp colour. Photolithography excellence in showing fruit and foliage with superb definition. The lithograph is as large as it could be on the page.

Original fine colour-printed photolithograph for The United States Department of Agriculture's The Grapes of New York by horticulturist Ulysses Prentiss Hedrick (1870-1951). 

From 1905 to 1925, the New York State Agricultural Experiment Station published a series of seven monographs on hardy fruits as components of their annual report. The publications began with octavo-sized lithographs for Apples of New York. Hedrick  continued the series, with illustrations in a larger format, over a period of 18 years, with six volumes on grapes, plums, cherries, peaches, pears and small fruits.

Page size is 280 x 225mm (11.75 x 9.25 inches). Damage at left edge of paper.