Harmony and envy / K. after Garnier's "Jour de Fête."
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Illustration shows a street scene with three monks, Whitelaw Reid, James G. Blaine, and John Logan, walking a few steps ahead of a band of merry revelers composed of Puck, Puck's figure for the "Independent" party, President Cleveland labeled "Reformed Bourbon" with a woman on the right labeled "North" and a woman on the left labeled "South", and an African American man. Reid carries a sack labeled "Bloody Shirt" and "Irreconcilable Editorials" and Logan is reading "Paradise Lost".
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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