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Print shows a rural setting with a young boy holding a broken kite up for examination by an old man sitting on a bench outside a dwelling, a young girl stands next to them, holding a pot of glue, and a small dog sits nearby, observing the proceedings. On the left, a woman standing in the doorway, directs a young boy, who is holding his head, toward the group at center. On the right, a little girl holding a doll, sits on the ground by a basket in which is a cat with her kittens.
B12257 U.S. Copyright Office.
Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1871 by S. Zickel in the office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington.
Copyright number is inscribed in pencil on lower left.
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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