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Freedom's latest convert / Keppler., Political Cartoon
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Print shows William II, German Emperor, with wings made from swords and handguns, and holding a sword labeled "Absolutism", standing on a cliff with other "Pillars of My Throne" identified as a soldier labeled "Military Force", a police officer labeled "Police Persecution" carrying a club labeled "Royal Crusher", an old man with a magnifying glass labeled "Legal Arbitrariness", Joseph Pulitzer wrapped in paper labeled "Subsidized Press" and "Reactionary Methods", a well-dressed man labeled "Privileged Nobility", and a teacher labeled "Drill in Subserviency". They are illuminated by a large sun labeled "Divine Right". The "vision" on the right shows a scene in "Transvaal" with a female figure wearing a phrygian cap and holding a flag labeled "Spirit of Freedom" rising in the clouds of smoke issuing from productive factories.
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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