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Summary
Print shows two bunches of grapes with the arms, legs, and head of a man (red grapes) and a woman (white grapes); the red grapes are pressed against the white grapes in an embrace, with trees in the background.
S24950 U.S. Copyright Office.
Caption: Pressed Grapes.
Copyright 1887. J.H. Bufford's Sons.
Copyright stamp and inscribed number appear on upper left of sheet.
Sheet originally numbered "No. 779-1", now inscribed in ink "5" over the "1".
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.
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