Henry Ward Beecher / from a photograph by Rockwood & Co. of New York.
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Print shows a proof sheet after three stones of Henry Ward Beecher, head-and-shoulders portrait, right porfile; includes print registration marks on all sides and the color bar indicating number of stones printed.
B202 U.S. Copyright Office.
Label on back from "The Advance Company" gives title and additional text.
Includes print-registration marks on all sides.
Copyright number inscribed in pencil on lower left side.
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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