Toussaint L'Ouverture / Corrie's Detroit Chromo Lith. office.
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Print shows Toussaint L'Ouverture, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right, wearing a robe.
A2401 U.S. Copyright Office.
Printed at bottom: Entered according to act of Congress AD 1870 by Geo De Baptiste in the Clerks Office of the District Court of the Eastn. Dist. of Mich.
Printed on label attached to bottom of print: De Baptiste's chromo of Toussaint L'Ouverture after the original painting by KNAL, of Paris.
Printed on label attached to bottom of print: Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1871, by George DeBaptiste, in the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.
Copyright number and title inscribed in pencil on bottom left.
Copyright number inscribed in pencil on label attached to bottom of print.
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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