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The court of death - from the original painting, by Rembrandt Peale / lith. of Sarony, Major & Knapp, 449 Broadway, N.Y.
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Print showing religious allegory based on a poem by Beilby Porteus, Bishop of London. Death sits on his throne in a cave. His agents include war, fire, famine, pestilence, pleasure, intemperance, remorse, delirium tremens, suicide, and disease. Old Age, an elderly man, is supported by a woman, Faith. Charles Willson Peale, the artist's father, served as a model for Old Age.
Inscribed in ink at bottom: Deposited in Clerk's Office, Southern District of New York, Dec. 1, 1859.
Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1859 by G.Q. Colton, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Southern district of New York.
Rembrandt Peale's 1820 painting, acquired by G.Q. Colton in 1859, was reproduced and sold. The original painting is now in the collection of the Detroit Institute of Arts.
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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