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Beach at ebb-tide, Chatham, Massachusetts. W.N. Bartholomew ; by W.N. Bartholomew
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Print shows a fisherman walking along the beach carrying short-masted sails for small fishing boats that have been pulled up onto the shore at low tide, in Chatham, Massachusetts.
X14623 U.S. Copyright Office.
Signed on stone on lower left: W.N. Bartholomew.
No. 468.
Printed on lower left: Copyright 1892 by L. Prang & Co. Boston, U.S.A.
Publication date based on copyright statement on item.
Title, publication statement, and copyright statement appear on "Prang's Water Color Studies" label mounted on verso.
Stamped on verso: Library of Congress Washington. Copyright Apr 2 1892.
Inscribed in pencil on verso: 14623Xp2s.
Inscribed in ink on upper left corner of verso: #2221 Des. 3.
From the series: Prang's Water Color Studies.
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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