Pecans. Alley, Teche, Curtis, Georgia, Delmas. Schutt lithograph c1906.

by Schutt-Blackburn, Ellen Isham

Pecans antique print: Alley, Teche, Curtis, Georgia, Delmas.

Original colour-printed lithograph by Ellen Isham Schutt-Blackburn (1873-1955), published in New York in 1906 by A. Hoen & Company Lithographers, for the Yearbook of the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture. E.I. Schutt was an artist for the Division of Pomology from 1904 to 1914.

Before the widespread use of photography, artists were employed to create watercolours of new agricultural crops. Between 1897 and 1920 Yearbooks were published to illustrate the wide range of produce in the United States. As they were published essentially to promote the growing of fruit and vegetables 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 slight age discolouration of this page.