Wealthy Apple, c. 1868 Hand-stenciled Watercolor Illustration from Horticultural Salesman Sample Catalog antique weight attributed to Walter Bosse

attributed to Walter Bosse

this double exposure snapshot is a perfect case in point--and a perfect thing

I purchased this one from an estate in Newton

hence the image of Athena at the bottom center of the plate

43/4" t x 1 1/4" x 1 1/4"

Wealthy Apple, c. 1868 Hand-stenciled Watercolor Illustration from Horticultural Salesman Sample Catalog antique weight attributed to Walter BosseHere a Wealthy apple, and an Alexander peach, listed separately today too I don't find these often, but recently came across a handful, and I just think they're gorgeous. This would have been one page in a salesman sample type horticultural specimen catalogue (unbound, but held together in a folio I believe). It is not a lithograph rather, the apple and leaves here were rendered in a manner akin to a theorem watercolor, using multiple, hand cut