Herman Eggeling (1884–1932)

Apples
Watercolor, gouache, pen and ink on paper

11 7/8″ x 9 1/8″ framed

Inscribed on the front numbers 1-6 next to each apple variety.

Inscribed on the reverse: No. 3017 / Artemas Ward plate 67 /1. Spitzenburg 2. Green Sweet 3. Golden Russet 4. Greening 5. Baldwin 6. Northern Spy

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)

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