Summer A.T. Bricher ; C. Armstrong ; after A.T. Bricher, original in posssession of the Publishers
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Print shows a summer scene on a farm with two children fishing at a pond in the foreground, harvesting hay in the background, large trees along a fence, and a farmhouse or barn on the left.
7289 U.S. Copyright Office.
Signed on stone on lower left: A.T. Bricher.
Signed on stone on lower right: C. Armstrong.
Printed on bottom center: Chromolitho & Published by L. Prang & Co.
Publication date based on copyright statement on label on verso.
Title, publication statement, and copyright statement appear on "Prang's American Chromos" label mounted on verso.
Printed and inscribed in pencil on label on verso: Library of Congress, United States of America. Chap. 31, Shelf Box A.I. Copyright No. 7289.
From the series: Prang's American Chromos.
Includes 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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