Empire State Grapes, Hand Stenciled Page From c. 1868 Nursery Specimens Salesman Sample Catalog antique paper doll perhaps meant for a name

perhaps meant for a name to be engraved inside of it

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

--so they seem to have lived their whole lives near home

with a list of the rest in the series on reverse

Empire State Grapes, Hand Stenciled Page From c. 1868 Nursery Specimens Salesman Sample Catalog antique paper doll perhaps meant for a nameSuch 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