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Summary
Print shows a young woman, three-quarter length portrait, facing front, wearing a pink dress, and holding a large wishbone with a bow on it over her head.
48317 (Class F) U.S. Copyright Office.
Publication date based on copyright stamp on item.
Copyright stamp with date and number appear on verso.
Copyright number inscribed in ink: 48317.
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.