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West Point / Andrew Melrose ; painted by Andrew Melrose.
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Print shows sailboats and steamboats on the Hudson River with West Point and the Hudson Highlands in the background.
Caption continues: On account of its celebrated military school, historic associations, and lovely scenery, is one of the most charming places on the Hudson "Oro, next and the storm king above West Point and on the same side, of the river are the loftiest of the Highland range of pits, / On either side these mountain glens / Lie open like a massive book / Whose words were graved with iron pens, / And lead into the eternal rock; / Which evermore shall here retain / The annals time cannot erase, / And while these granite leaves remain / This crystal ribbon marks the place, / The spot where Koscinsko dreamed / Fort Putnams gray and riuned wall / West Point, where patriot bayonets gleamed / This open page reveals them all.["] Wallace Bruce.
No. 761.
Signed on stone on lower left: Andrew Melrose.
Printed at lower left: "This design is the Property [inscribed in ink above "Copyright"] of Andrew Melrose the artist and copyrighted at Washington."
Copyright number inscribed in pencil on lower left margin.
Includes a remarque on lower left margin showing an artists easel and "RTS Artistic Series Trade Mark".
Includes print registration marks on all sides and a color bar across the bottom indicating that 23 stones were used.
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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