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The bone of contention / A.M. Willard.

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The bone of contention / A.M. Willard.

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Print shows a young boy trying to separate two dogs that are fighting, a second boy stands on the left, crying. One of the dogs may have been harnessed to a small wagon.
H12727 U.S. Copyright Office.

Signed on stone in lower left corner.
Print margin includes print-registration marks.
Copyright stamp on bottom right side margin.
Copyrighted in 1877 by Jos. Hoover.

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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01/01/1877
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Willard, Archibald M., 1836-1918, artist
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