[The last meeting between General Lee and Jackson] / J.G. Fay, 1877.
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Print shows General Robert E. Lee, with troops, on the right and General Stonewall Jackson, with troops, on the left, both on horseback, meeting for the last time prior to Jackson's untimely death.
K8697 U.S. Copyright Office.
Signed on stone on lower left: J.G. Fay, 1877.
Includes print-registration marks on all sides and a color bar, indicating the number of stones used, on the left.
Copyright 1879 by the Turnbull Brothers.
Exhibited: "150th Anniversary of the Civil War : Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee" at the National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C., 2014-2015.
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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