Lobster, eggs, celery, etc. / after R.D. Wilkie.
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Print shows a lobster on a large platter with hardboiled eggs, celery, and parsley, also a shallow tureen and a condiments tray.
H9766 U.S. Copyright Office.
Printed on label attached to verso: Prang's American chromos. Original in the possession of the publishers.
Copyright, 1877, by L. Prang & Co.
Copyright stamp and number appear on verso above attached label.
Includes print-registration marks on right and left sides.
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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