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No. 5, Catskill Mountains from Hudson River
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Print shows a landscape view of the Catskill Mountains with travelers on a stone arch bridge spanning a gorge, with mountains in the background.
From a series formerly known as "The Ruggles Gems".
Label on verso with title and publication statements.
Publication date based on entry in "The Ladies' Repository, A Universalist Monthly Magazine for the Home Circle" for vol. 38, July 1867, p. 76.
Copyright label on verso with pencil inscriptions: Library of Congress. United States of America. Chapt. 31, Shelf, Box A.1, Copyright No. 1777.
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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