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Flowers - Print, Library of Congress collection
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Print shows two bouquets of flowers on a lampshade-shaped die-cut mount, with recurring motif of eagle atop armorial design with cupid at center.
242 U.S. Copyright Office.
No. 53.
Inscribed in ink on verso: No. 242 Filed March 7, 1864 by E.P. & L. Restein & Co. Proprietors.
Entered according to [act] of Congress in the year 1864 by E.P. & L. Restein & Co. in the Clerk's [Office of] the District Court of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
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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