Female bathers, no. 4 - Victorian era public domain image
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Print shows several women relaxing on the shore after bathing in a pond in a wooded area.
R19826 U.S. Copyright Office.
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Copyright stamp, date, and number appear on lower right corner.
Stamped and inscribed in pencil on lower right: Library of Congress City of Washington. Copyright Sep 2 1886 No. 19826Rp2s.
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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