• Large letterpress art print featuring "The Old North State," an ode to North Carolina and all her natural beauty, written in 1904 by Mrs. Leonora Monteiro. Macon York has hand-written the entire toast in her whimsical style. All the native plants in the toast are hand-drawn to create a border around the text.
  • Large letterpress art print featuring "The Old North State," an ode to North Carolina and all her natural beauty, written in 1904 by Mrs. Leonora Monteiro. Macon York has hand-written the entire toast in her whimsical style. All the native plants in the toast are hand-drawn to create a border around the text. The print is shown outside behind some rocks, in front of an arbor with honeysuckle growing up, and wild ferns to the right.
  • Large letterpress art print featuring "The Old North State," an ode to North Carolina and all her natural beauty, written in 1904 by Mrs. Leonora Monteiro. Macon York has hand-written the entire toast in her whimsical style. All the native plants in the toast are hand-drawn to create a border around the text. The artist, Macon, is shown holding the print - a zoomed in shot of just the print and her hands.
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Macon York Press

Art Print, 12x18: The Old North State

$40.00 USD
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Did you know: North Carolina is the ONLY of the fifty states to have an official State Toast?

"The Old North State" was written and first delivered by Mrs. Leonora Monteiro in 1904.

I have hand-drawn all the native plants of North Carolina that are listed in the toast to create a border around the text: long leaf pine, cotton bloom, scuppernong, southern moss, jessamine, galax, rhododendron.

The toast also mentions Mount Mitchell, the highest Appalachian peak - located just Northeast of Asheville in Pisgah National Forest.

The text "Esse Quam Videri" is at the bottom of the print. This is the North Carolina State Motto. It translates roughly as "to [authentically] be not merely to appear," or put more simply, the distinction between essence and appearance.

This letterpress print is handmade wall art. It is a 12”x18” letterpress poster.

PRINT
100% Cotton Paper
118# Cover Weight (a nice, thick stock)
Pearl White
12" x 18"

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