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PCT4264050: Fancy postcard (kitsch): Eve de la “” Belle Epoque”” (ca. 1920). This photographer in the studio of a naked woman in front of a painted background naively depicting Paradise (garden of Eden with apple and snake), testifies, beyond a questionable inspiration and taste, a real talent of laying and lighting, which pays tribute to the most accomplished academic painting. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4657708: Fruit seller of Hamburg, Germany, with basket of apples, 19th century. She wears a starched fichu on her bonnet and many petticoats worn over the other. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Georges Jacques Gatine after an illustration by Louis Marie Lante from Costumes of Various Countries, Costumes de Divers Pays, Paris, 1827., Gatine, Georges Jacques (1773-1831) / Bridgeman Images
ELD4893247: Le chargement des pommes dans les wagons, quai de Bercy, Paris (Dockers charging apples in cars on the quai de Bercy, Paris) Drawing by Gustave Fraipont (1849-1923) draws from “La seine a travers Paris” by Saint-Juirs, 1890 Collection privee, Fraipont, Gustave (1849-1923) / Bridgeman Images
FLO4669192: Balsam apple female, Momordica balsamina, and deadly nightshade, Atropa belladonna. Handcoloured woodblock engraving of a botanical illustration from Adam Lonicer's Krauterbuch, or Herbal, Frankfurt, 1557. This from a 17th century pirate edition or atlas of illustrations only, with captions in Latin, Greek, French, Italian, German, and in English manuscript. / Bridgeman Images