Lemons and Pineapples: Antique Botanical Prints by Maria Sibylla Meria and Risso.

Antique Fruit Prints

View our selection of historical fruit prints. All prints are in very good condition unless otherwise noted.

Ordering and Payment

"Brunswick Fig"

Pen lithograph published in London ca 1860. Original hand coloring.

Height of image: 16.2 cm ( 6.3 ")
Page size: 23.7 x 16.2 cm ( 9.3 x 6.3 ")

$ 70.00

Order Nr. FRUIT6125

!. Figue blanche. 2. Figue violette.

Lithograph ca 1860. Original hand coloring.
Light browning on edges and somevery trivial spotting.

Height of lower fig: 8 cm ( 3.1 ")
Page size: 22.2 x 13.2 cm ( 8.7 x 5.2 ")

$ 70.00

Order Nr. FRUIT6126

"Brunswick" (Fig)

Lithograph ca 1845. Original hand coloring.
Light smudging and spotting in margins.

Height of fig: 10 cm ( 3.9 ")
Page size: 17.5 x 11 cm ( 6.8 x 4.3 ")

$ 40.00

Order Nr. FRUIT6123

The Verdelho Grape

The Verdelho Grape

Here we witness one of the first attempts using a steel plate instead of a copper plate for printing fine quality botanical prints. First used in England about 1820 it soon replaced the "soft" copper material. This astonishingly fine steel aquatint shows how much diligence and artistic attention the new medium received by the artists experimenting with it. After all they were expected to show that the copper plate could indeed be replaced.

Steel aquatint in original hand coloring. Engraved after Miss Drake for the "Transactions"
of the Royal Horticultural Society of London. Ca 1820.

Fine print. No left margin. Hardly visible crease in upper left corner.

Page size: 28.5 x 22 cm ( 11.2 x 8.6 ")

$ 360.00

Order Nr. FRUIT6133

No Title

Attractive watercolor with the initials C J S and 78 for the year (1978)

Height of grapes: 19.5 cm ( 7.6 ")

$ 95.00

Order Nr. FRUIT6131

Bacchus - Painting from Pompeii

Bacchus
Painting from Pompeii

Chromolithograph ca 1880. Wide margins.

16.5 x 11.5 cm ( 6.4 x 4.5 ")

$ 70.00

Order Nr. FRUIT6132

The following grape prints by Beau are from "Les Fruits Cultivés In France". These are original hand-colored lithographs published in 1869.

Page size: ca 27.5 x 17.5 cm (10.8 x 6.8 ")
Some light minor spotting, mostly in upper area.

$ 220.00

Order Nr. FRUIT 6106

$ 220.00

Order Nr. FRUIT 6105

The Varigated Chasselas

Stipple engraving in original hand coloring. Ca 1820.
Very minimal light spotting.

27.5 x 21.3 cm ( 10.8 x 8.3 ")

$ 380.00

Order Nr. FRUIT6114

1. Gros Blanquet. 2. Bellissime d'Ete

Lithograph in original hand coloring, ca 1850.

$ 55.00

Order Nr. FRUIT6120 SOLD

"Malus Mitis"

(Apple Blossoms)

Lithograph in original color published in London, 1842.
One spot in lower right corner. A few other very minor spots.

Page size: 27.5 x 20.3 cm ( 10.8 x 8")
Height of branch: 15 cm ( 5.9 ")

$ 80.00

Order Nr. FRUIT6122

Upright Wood-binde with blew berries.

Wood cut from "The Herball" by John Gerard, 1597. Gerard
had his own garden in London and was in charge of Lord
Burhley's gardens in London. "The Herball " gives much
information to where the various plants are found and
their medicinal uses. Modern hand coloring.

Backside is printed - some print from backside is visible.

Height of image: 12.5 cm ( 4.9 ")

$ 60.00

Order Nr. FRUIT6117

Petit Muscat

Stipple engraving in original hand coloring, ca 1800.
Light browing on margin edges.

Page size: 22.1 x 13.5 cm ( 8.7 x 5.3 ")

$ 55.00

Order Nr. FRUIT6128

Boys eating Melons Knaben Melonen essend.

Steel engraving by A. Carse after Murillo, ca 1850.
Overall light age toning and a few minimal spots in margins.

16.7 x 13.2 cm ( 6.5 x 5.1 ")

$ 60.00

Order Nr. FRUIT6129

Essende Knaben Boys Eating Fruit

Steel engraving by A.H. Payne after a Murillo painting in the Munich Pinakothek, ca 1850.

Wide margins. Light age toning. A few small spots in margins, especially right margin edge.

16.5 x 13.5 cm ( 6.4 x 5.3 ")

$ 60.00

Order Nr. FRUIT6121

"Blue Muscadine"

Aquatint by George Brookshaw from "Pomona Britannica, or, a Collection of the Most Esteemed Fruits at Present Cultivated in this Country.....Selected Principally from the Royal Gardens at Hampton Court....Accurately Drawn and Coulored from Nature with Full Descriptions......"
Published by G. Brookshaw in London, ca 1810. PlateXLIX. Original hand coloring. An exquisite print.

Print has wide margins. One noticeable spot in lower right of image and a few small spots near top of image.
Minor spotting and light smudging in margins. Otherwise good condition.

Image size without title: 42.2 x 32.5 cm ( 16.6 x 12.8 ")
Page size: 55 x 43 cm ( 21.6 x 16.9 ")

$ 1600.00

Order Nr. FRUIT 6127

"Galande Presle" (Peaches)

Lithograph in original hand coloring, ca 1850.

Page size: 22 x 13.5 cm ( 8.6 x 5.3 ")

$ 55.00

Order Nr. FRUIT6124 SOLD

Benthamia fragifera

Here we witness one of the first attempts using a steel plate instead of a copper plate for printing fine quality botanical prints. First used in England about 1820 it soon replaced the "soft" copper material. This astonishingly fine steel aquatint shows how much diligence and artistic attention the new medium received by the artists experimenting with it. After all they were expected to show that the copper plate could indeed be replaced.

Steel aquatint in original hand coloring. Engraved after Miss Drake for the "Transactions"
of the Royal Horticultural Society of London. Ca 1820.

Very l ight fraying on left and right edges. Light crease along bottom edge.

30.2 x 24 cm ( 11.8 x 9.4 ")

$ 370.00

Order Nr. BOTANICALTRANSACTION 6332