Winfield Raspberry antique print. D.G. Passmore lithograph c1909.

$65.00

Raspberry antique print, small fine lithograph by D. G. Passmore c1909.

Fine original colour-printed lithograph by botanical artist Deborah Grisscom Passmore (1840-1911), printed in New York in 1909 by the American Lithographic Company, for the Yearbook of the United States Department of Agriculture. Deborah Passmore received a strict Quaker education prior to moving from Delaware to study at the School of Design and Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia.  She was a fine botanical artist who worked in the U.S.A. Division of Pomology for 19 years.

Between 1897 and 1920 Yearbooks were published to illustrate the wide range of fruit produced in the United States. From 1905 to 1925, the New York State Agricultural Experiment Station published a series of seven monographs on hardy fruits as part of their annual report.  Ulysses Prentiss Hedrick (1870-1951), continued the series over a period of 18 years, with larger photolithographs for six volumes on grapes, plums, cherries, peaches, pears and small fruits. As they were published essentially to promote the growing of fruit in the United States, there was not an enormous circulation, so these beautiful illustrations are rarely seen today.

The smaller chromolithographs for the early editions like this one, all measured 23 x 14cm (9 x 5.5 inches). There is slight damage down left side of this print, but it would not show when framed.