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Ruins on the Nile J.H. ; J.Q - Egypt
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Print shows the ruins of a temple on the banks of the Nile River, Egypt, at sunrise or sunset.
B6985 U.S. Copyright Office.
Signed on stone on lower left: J.H. J.Q.
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1871, by Duval & Hunter, in the Office of the Librarian of Congress Washington, D.C.
Copyright number inscribed in pencil on label on verso.
From label on verso: Chromos by James F. Queen, after the original. By the celebrated marine artist, James Hamilton.
Includes print-registration marks appear at top and sides; sheet appears to have been cut in half.
Stamped on verso: 2nd copy delivered to the Art Gallery Dec. 1, 1897.
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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