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"American beauty" - Public domain print
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Print shows a young African American man, half-length, facing front, holding a cut rose to his nose.
AA39382 U.S. Copyright Office.
Publication date based on copyright stamp on item.
Includes print-registration marks on all sides.
Inscribed in ink on lower left: "The [crossed out] "American Beauty".
Inscribed in pencil on lower right: The Winters Art Litho Co. prs.
Stamped on lower right: Library of Congress City of Washington. Copyright Aug 1 1895.
Copyright number inscribed in pencil on lower right: 39382aap1s.
Stamped on verso: 2nd copy delivered to Art Gallery Nov 20 1897.
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.
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