This Alexander peach, and a Wealthy apple listed separately today--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). This is not a lithograph--rather, the peach and leaves here were rendered in a manner akin to a theorem watercolor, using multiple, hand-cut stencils and meticulously applied layers of watercolor/gouache. This technique is often called Pochoir, from the French, or a hand stencil print. With ink printed text below describing the attributes of this "handsome" specimen. C. 1870.
8 3/8" x 5 3/8". Very good condition, watercolor and ink on watermarked wove. With a fingerprint showing a bit of red/orange ink at bottom edge of peach, I would guess preserved when color was still wet. A bit of imperfection to the ink on the text, original to the printing I believe.
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