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Bitten apple core with stem on dark background – Antique Wall Art

Bitten apple core with stem on dark background — historic image
Bitten apple core with stem on dark background. Historic image from the Fruit & Vegetable Labels collection.

(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Few images capture their era like this historic image of Bitten apple core with stem on dark background. It comes from the Snapshots of the Past collection, curated over 25 years for its historical value.

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Bitten apple core with stem on dark background

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A bitten apple core, stem still attached, sits against a dark ground, its flesh showing the pale tones and small teeth-marks that make the moment of eating visible. Still-life painters and photographers returned to fruit like this because an apple carries so much in a single form: it can signal abundance, decay, or the brief pause between bites. Pictures of partly eaten fruit were especially useful in book illustration, where a simple, high-contrast image could stand alone on a page. Looking closely, the stem and the cut edge of the core give the viewer a sense of scale and of a very recent, ordinary act.

Original scan3,000 × 2,001 px · prints to 10 × 7 in at 300 dpi
Reference483840217_b89340897f_b Apple Core

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