Here 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 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 "beautiful and excellent" specimen. C. 1870.
8 3/8" x 5 3/8", very good condition, ink and watercolor on watermarked wove.
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