Background:

These prints are from Deutsche Pomologie (German Pomology), the transactions of the German Pomological Society.   Accompanying each of the Fruit prints is a narrative which describes the fruit and instructions on cultivation.  The text was authored by W. Lauche.

The print was made through a colored lithographic process called chromolithography.  The brilliance of the colors in this print is a good example of how Germany had perfected the art of chromolithography in the second half of the 1800s.