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Summary
Print shows a summer scene with two boys fishing at a pond or river; trees line the sides of a dirt road, a dwelling is nestled among the trees on the left, and the "Blue Hills" of Camden, Maine are seen in the distance.
W23066 U.S. Copyright Office.
Signed on stone on lower left: Louis K. Harlow.
No. 450.
Printed on lower left: Copyright 1891 by L. Prang & Co. Boston.
Publication date based on copyright statement on item.
Title, publication statement, and copyright statement appear on "Prang's Water Color Studies" label mounted on verso.
Stamped on verso: Library of Congress Washington. Copyright Jun 24 1891.
Inscribed in pencil on verso: 23066Wp2s.
Inscribed in ink on upper left corner of verso: 2154 Des. 4.
From the series: Prang's Water Color Studies.
Forms part of: Popular graphic art print filing series (Library of Congress).
Alois Senefelder, the inventor of lithography, introduced the subject of colored lithography in 1818. Printers in other countries, such as France and England, were also started producing color prints. The first American chromolithograph—a portrait of Reverend F. W. P. Greenwood—was created by William Sharp in 1840. Chromolithographs became so popular in American culture that the era has been labeled as "chromo civilization". During the Victorian times, chromolithographs populated children's and fine arts publications, as well as advertising art, in trade cards, labels, and posters. They were also used for advertisements, popular prints, and medical or scientific books.