Herman Eggeling (1884–1932)

Persimmons
Watercolor and gouache on paper

12″ x 9 1/4″ framed

Inscribed on the reverse: No. 3017 / Name: Artemas Ward / plate 64 / American and Japanese Persimmons.

Back board retains stamp: Kolesch & Co. / drawing materials / 138 Fulton St, New York

Herman Eggeling was an illustrator working in New York. He created the majority of the colored illustrations for Artemas Ward’s The Grocer’s Encyclopedia (1911) and later Encyclopedia of Food (1923).

Artemas Ward (1848-1925)