Empire State Grapes, Hand Stenciled Page From c. 1868 Nursery Specimens Salesman Sample Catalog vintage painting supplies with a bit of tearing

with a bit of tearing on the right edge and a few minor stains here and there

the former completed for just for part of the year

as if to say "I'll do you one better

I love old brass stencils bearing evocative words and phrases and am always looking for them

And quite a metaphor for the moment I'd say

Empire State Grapes, Hand Stenciled Page From c. 1868 Nursery Specimens Salesman Sample Catalog vintage painting supplies with a bit of tearingSuch 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