Centenaire de la lithographie -- Galerie Rapp, Champ de mars -- Octobre-Novembre 1895 / P. Puvis de Chavannes.
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Poster announcing an exhibit at the Galerie Rapp, Champ de Mars, Paris, for the centennial celebration of the founding of lithography, showing a woman holding a piece of paper and a cherub with a large portfolio.
Signed on stone.
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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