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Valentine, Anonymous, Victorian Greeting Card

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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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anonymous chromolithographs color lithographs ephemera greeting cards lithographs planographic prints prints valentines gift of mrs richard riddell high resolution illumination of books and manuscripts illuminated manuscripts metropolitan museum of art
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1880
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Chromolithograph is printed by multiple applications of lithographic stones, each using a different color ink.
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Metropolitan Museum of Art
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anonymous chromolithographs color lithographs ephemera greeting cards lithographs planographic prints prints valentines gift of mrs richard riddell high resolution illumination of books and manuscripts illuminated manuscripts metropolitan museum of art