Eastman Johnson - Whittier's barefooted boy - Print, Library of Congress collection
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Print shows a full-length portrait of a young, barefoot boy standing on a rock in a stream at the edge of a wooded area with a cabin in the background.
4105 U.S. Copyright Office.
Title from publisher's label on verso.
Publisher's label includes text of first verse of Whittier's poem, The barefoot boy.
Reproduction of painting after Eastman Johnson based on poem by John Greenleaf Whittier.
Exhibited: American ABC, Cantor Center for Visual Arts, Stanford University, 2005.
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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