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The decay of home-life among the "smart set" / Ehrhart.
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Print shows a vignette cartoon about the aspirations for social life among the well-to-do; at center, "The Will-o'-the-Wisp of Social Aspirations" shows a crowd of rich people chasing after "Social Ambition", a wraith-like female figure floating just beyond the edge of a cliff who entices them to follow her. Among the vignettes are women promenading while "Displaying Gowns at the Summer Resort" and "Kow-towing to Royalty", "Coaching in the Highlands" and spending "All Day on the Golf-Links", "Cruising in the Mediterranean" and "Being 'Sporty' at Monte Carlo". This sort of rake's progress "among the 'Smart Set'" ends with a final vignette labeled "What it Leads to" that shows a long line of well-dressed men and women leading to the judge's bench where he hands out documents labeled "Divorce".
Illus. from Puck, v. 45, no. 1170, (1899 August 9), centerfold.
Copyright 1899 by Keppler & Schwarzmann.
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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