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Medium:
Paper
Dimensions:
8 11/16 × 11 3/4 in. (22.1 × 29.8 cm)
Type:
Printed matter
Date:
ca. 1891-1904
Description:
Color lithograph of young girl on the beach mounted on cardboard. The illustration depicts a young girl with bare feet carrying a shovel and bucket in Victorian dress. In the background there is a couple at the water’s edge, a small boat, and seagulls flying over them. The image is mounted on cardboard within a decorative blue, red, and gold printed frame.
Label Text:
Lithographs were a popular decoration for the middle-class Victorian home, especially in the years following the Civil War when the technology improved allowing for finer prints, available at lower costs through mass production. In addition to popular art prints, lithographs populated publications of the era. Books, trade literature, catalogues, periodicals all used chromolithographs to illustrate their pages. Advertising art such as trade cards, labels, posters, and pages in magazines relied heavily on the lithographic process dynamic illustrations to attract attention to their products. The attractive designs and illustrations led to the popular hobby of collecting trade cards and pages from various publications in the late nineteenth century. Prints were kept in albums, hung on walls, put in frames, and added to scrapbooks. Lithography remained the most popular form of printing throughout the nineteenth century until offset printing replaced it in the late 1930s.
Paper/Support:
Mounted on cardboard
Topic:
chromolithographs  Search this
ephemera  Search this
prints  Search this
girls  Search this
Credit Line:
Smithsonian Gardens, Horticultural Artifacts Collection.
Accession number:
1984.250.062
Restrictions & Rights:
Usage conditions apply
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Horticultural Artifacts Collection
Data Source:
Smithsonian Gardens
GUID:
http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/aq4289acbff-eb7d-4b64-a62d-500c58f036af
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:hac_1984.250.062