General Robt. E. Lee at Fredericksburg, Dec. 13, 1862 / H.A. Ogden.
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Print shows General Robert E. Lee holding binoculars, standing on a ridge with other officers and a man on horseback, monitoring the battle at Fredericksburg, Virginia, December 13, 1862.
D4749 U.S. Copyright Office.
Signed on stone on lower right: H.A. Odgen.
Inscribed in ink at bottom: Copyright 1900 by Jones Brothers Publishing Co.
Copyright number inscribed in ink on back.
Date of copyright deposit stamped on back.
Includes print-registration marks on sides and top.
Exhibited: "150th Anniversary of the Civil War : Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee" at the National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C., 2014-2015.
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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