Empire State Grapes, Hand Stenciled Page From c. 1868 Nursery Specimens Salesman Sample Catalog vintage painting supplies It seems to me that

It seems to me that there are two different hands that wrote in it—the first running 1897-1893

There is also an incised mark which appears to read 18

so that one can pop out an animal and then punch it back in

the former completed for just for part of the year

Empire State Grapes, Hand Stenciled Page From c. 1868 Nursery Specimens Salesman Sample Catalog vintage painting supplies It seems to me thatSuch luminous and voluptuous grapes, I do want to eat or drink! them right up. I've handled a few examples (of apples and peaches and pears) of this type before this would have been one page in a salesman sample type horticultural specimen catalogue (unbound, but held together in a large folio case). This is not a lithograph rather, the grapes here were rendered in a manner akin to a theorem watercolor, using multiple, hand cut stencils and