Can you keep a secret? Wise bird, tell me true?
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Print shows Cupid sitting on a tree branch, speaking to an owl.
P18186 U.S. Copyright Office.
Caption continues: I have half a notion to confide in you; / There's a certain maiden - listen! - don't you stir! / As pretty as a picture, and I'm in love with her. / To My Valentine.
Printed on lower left: No. 1113.
Publication date based on copyright statement and/or copyright stamp on item.
Copyright stamp, date, and number appear on verso.
Stamped on verso: Library of Congress City of Washington. Copyright Nov 4 1884.
Inscribed in pencil on verso: 18186P.
Card is broken across the top with some loss to the title.
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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