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The immortal George / J.S. Pughe., Political Cartoon
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Print shows several vignettes around a central scene that shows George Washington being questioned about cutting down a cherry tree; vignettes show Washington as a lover, a joke writer, a lawyer, a preacher, street vendor selling food, a husband arriving home late and drunk, a friend, and a newspaper editor. In each vignette Washington strives to "Always Tell the Truth", which in all situations fails him; he has no clients, no parishioners, no sales, and is about to be sued for "Libel", he is not likely to sell any jokes, get a date, or mollify an angry wife.
Caption: How would he appear, if alive to-day, in different capacities.
Illus. from Puck, v. 43, no. 1094, (1898 February 23), centerfold.
Copyright 1898 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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