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To my valentine. Love may come and love may go, ... M monogram
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Print shows a young girl, full-length portrait, standing, facing slightly right, wearing a bonnet. On verso is a floral design with blossoms and a poem addressed "to my valentine" attributed to "E.S.F."
N20945 U.S. Copyright Office.
Caption continues: I care not if he come or no, / Or whether soon or whether slow; / What's he that I should fear him? / Love is proud and fierce, I'm told, / Love is sometimes bluff and bold, / Love can be severe and cold; / If so, I'll not come near him. / Love, they say, is smooth and fine, / Love can sing a song divine; / If to me he should incline, / Perhaps I'll stop to hear him. E.S.F.
Signed on stone with monogram on lower right: M.
Copyright statement printed on lower right corner.
Publication date based on copyright statement on item.
Copyright stamp with date and number appear on verso.
Copyright number inscribed in pencil: 20945N.
Inscribed in pencil on upper left of verso: 1330 Des. 2.
Forms part of: Popular graphic art print filing series (Library of Congress).
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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