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Making the kite copied by Louis Kurz, of the Chicago Lithographing Company, after William Cogswell's painting
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Print shows a young boy sitting on the edge of a table with his feet on a chair, making a kite; there are two cats playing on the floor, an open book with scissors resting on it, a portion of a page has been cut out, a kite leaning against a chair, and a bow and arrow leaning against the wall in the background.
6189 U.S. Copyright Office.
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Label on verso with title, publication, and copyright statements.
Printed on label: Made expressly for a companion picture to "Making the Scrap Book."
Printed and inscribed in pencil on another label on verso: Library of Congress, United States of America. Chap. 31, Shelf Box A.5. Copyright No. 6189.
Includes color bar across bottom and print-registration marks at top and bottom.
Forms part of: Popular graphic art print filing series (Library of Congress).
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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