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No. 1, New York City, seen from the Green H.A.F. 68 ; after oil paintings by H.A. Ferguson, N.Y
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Print shows a landscape view with sheep grazing on a meadow with New York City in the background.
Title from another print in the series with label on verso.
Signed on stone on lower left: H.A.F. 68.
From the series: Prang's American Chromos : Six Central Park Views.
Label on verso with title and publication statements is torn with loss to almost all of the text.
Publication date based on copyright statement on item.
Copyright label on verso with pencil inscriptions: Library of Congress. United States of America. Chapt. 31, Shelf, Box A.I, Copyright No. 5981.
Attributed to artist Henry Augustus Ferguson, ca. 1842-1911.
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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