The peace of Europe is assured / Keppler, Jr.
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Print shows Alexander III, labeled "Russia", looking sternly at William II, labeled "Germany", who returns the glare, as they walk along a pathway away from a statue of "Peace", a female figure with wings, looking doubtful; Alexander III is accompanied by a diminutive Sadi Carnot labeled "France" who is shaking his fist across the pathway at a diminutive Umberto I, labeled "Italy", who in turn shakes his fist, and a diminutive Franz Joseph I, labeled "Austria", who accompany William II.
Illus. from Puck, v. 34, no. 870, (1893 November 8), centerfold.
Copyright 1893 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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