Look before you eat F. Opper, chromolithograph
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Illustration shows a man standing at a dining room table, using various chemical apparatus, such as a "Milk Tester" with "High Water Mark", a "Sand Extractor" over a "Sugar" bowl, and a "Butter Tester", as well as a microscope and a retort, to analyze food products before sitting down to eat. He has a book titled "Chemistry" in his coat pocket.
Illus. from Puck, v. 15, no. 366, (1884 March 12), cover.
Copyright 1884 by Keppler & Schwarzmann.
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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