Belle de Boskoop Apple is a digitally restored reproduction from a series of antique "Plates for the Nurserymen." The original print was used as a salesmen's sample to illustrate varieties of fruits, vegetables, and trees offered by 19th Century Nurseries located in Rochester, New York. Plates came in several formats such as hand-colored prints, theorem painting, woodcuts, and chromolithographs sold by Rochester’s printing firms from 1860-1905. The printer of this Theorum Painting plate was M. Brunswick and Company, which was the only of Rochester's printers owned and operated by a woman.
