Pecans. Major, Burkett, Warrick, Havens, Owens. Lithograph c1912

by Schutt-Blackburn, Ellen Isham

Wonderfully displayed Pecans, antique print. Artist, EI Schutt c1912.

Original colour-printed lithograph by E.I. Schutt for the Yearbook of the United States Deptartment of Agriculture, published in New York in 1912 by Julius Bien Company Lithographers. Ellen Isham Schutt-Blackburn (1873-1955), 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).