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Wreath no. 8 after Mrs. O.E. Whitney
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Print shows a wreath comprised of flowers and foliage encompassing the verse "When faith the heart of love unseals / Full many a flower its charm reveals" by "A. Tholuck, D.D."
E9719 U.S. Copyright Office.
Printed on lower left: L. Prang & Co. Boston.
Publication date based on copyright statement on item.
Title, publication, and copyright statements appear on label mounted on verso.
Printed on label on verso: Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1874, by L. Prang & Co., in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, D.C.
Copyright stamp appears on verso.
Inscribed in pencil on verso: 9719Ep2s.
Includes print-registration marks on top and bottom.
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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