Antique Print-FRONTISPIECE-FRUIT-Eerelman-Berghuis-1868

Original colour chromolithograph with hand colouring on a vellin type paper. on paper.

Size in cm: The overall size is ca. 23.5 x 31 cm. The image size is ca. 18 x 25.5 cm. Size in inch: The overall size is ca. 9.3 x 12.2 inch. The image size is ca. 7.1 x 10 inch.

Frontispiece showing a goddess inspecting fruit. In the foreground medalions of the awards this work received on Brussels and Dublin exhibitions. This decorative original old antique print / lithograph originates from: ‘De Nederlandsche Boomgaard ….’ (translation: The Dutch Orchard.), by the Pomological Society at Boskoop, the Netherlands, with plates after S. Berghuis, published in 1868. This awarded and respected work was printed in an estimated 1200 copies and contains plates of many species and variations of fruits: apples, pears, apricots, peaches and cherries. It provided great knowledge of the Dutch fruit variety and underscored the fame of the Boskoop fruit tree nursery industry.Artists and Engravers: This plate drawn by the reknown artist Otto Eerelman and printed by Severeyn’s Chromolithographic Institute in Belgium.

Condition: Excellent. General age related toning and the usual foxing.

Keywords: ANTIQUE PRINT-FRONTISPIECE-FRUIT-EERELMAN-BERGHUIS

(PCO) A143-01