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A peace dream of Eastertime / Keppler.
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Print shows a female figure labeled "Europe" asleep among boxes of "Munitions and Ammunition", large shells, and a barrel of "Powder" with a candle labeled "Ambition" as a burning fuse; she is dreaming about "The Czar's Proposal for a Universal Peace Congress". Her dream shows an angel holding up a banner labeled "Millennium" around which are dancing the symbolic representations of several countries, among them are a fox, a turkey wearing a fez, a double-headed eagle labeled "Austria", a cock labeled "France", an eagle labeled "Germany", the British Lion, the Russian Bear labeled "Russia", a fox labeled "Italy", a cat labeled "Spain", and a crocodile labeled "China".
Illus. from Puck, v. 45, no. 1152, (1899 April 5), centerfold.
Copyright 1899 by Keppler & Schwarzmann.
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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