The Yellow Kid Well here's to happy days, see R.F. Outcault
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Illustration showing Yellow Kid sitting at a table in a restaurant and holding up a glass of wine and squirting seltzer on a small dog; a black cat rubs against his chair and, in the background, a waiter looks on amusedly.
Illus. in: The Yellow Kid, v. 1, no. 4, 1897 May 8, cover.
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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