Empire State Grapes, Hand Stenciled Page From c. 1868 Nursery Specimens Salesman Sample Catalog antique paper doll and looks just great sitting

and looks just great sitting on the desk

Drawn in black ink (now kind of sepia toned) on an almost vellum-like paper (used by architects in the 19th c

which someone at some point trimmed and glued to a piece of card (not what I would ever do

with "Specimens of Sea Weeds for Mrs

both of which I think are great examples--for being of the very specific and therefore rather over the top variety

Empire State Grapes, Hand Stenciled Page From c. 1868 Nursery Specimens Salesman Sample Catalog antique paper doll and looks just great sittingSuch 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