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Winter days - Print, Library of Congress collection
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Print shows a winter scene with a large sleigh drawn by four horses, with several men and women riding past a house with a white picket fence and smoke coming out of a chimney on a snowy winter day. A dog is chasing the sleigh. On the left, a man drives an ox team pulling a sled filled with firewood. At the corners are vignettes showing people ice skating, sledding, and making snowballs.
M8154 U.S. Copyright Office.
Copyright stamp and number appear on lower right.
Copyrighted by Gaylord Watson 1881.
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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