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== Description ==
 
== Description ==
  
An early color [http://cameo.mfa.org/materials/fullrecord.asp?name=lithograph lithograph] prepared using a separate plates for each color. First developed in the early 1800s, chromolithography was used commercially as a color reproduction technique until the end of the 19th century.
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An early color [[lithograph]] prepared using a separate plates for each color. First developed in the early 1800s, chromolithography was used commercially as a color reproduction technique until the end of the 19th century.
  
 
== Synonyms and Related Terms ==
 
== Synonyms and Related Terms ==

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Description

An early color Lithograph prepared using a separate plates for each color. First developed in the early 1800s, chromolithography was used commercially as a color reproduction technique until the end of the 19th century.

Synonyms and Related Terms

chromolithography; chromo-lithography; chromo; oleograph; color lithograph; chromolithografie (Ned.); chromolithographie (Fr., Deut.); Farblithografie (Deut.); Farbensteindruck (Deut.); cromolitografia (It., Esp.), färglitografi (Sven.)

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Authority

  • Encyclopedia Britannica, http://www.britannica.com Comment: "oleograph." Encyclopædia Britannica. 2005. Encyclopædia Britannica Premium Service - "pioneered in the 1830s" 3 Feb. 2005 .
  • Luis Nadeau, Encyclopedia of Printing, Photographic, and Photomechanical Processes, Atelier, New Brunswick, 1997 Comment: "Senefelder seems to have been the first, published color print in 1817....another source mentions Michele de Serres as the inventor in 1814"
  • The Bullfinch Guide to Art History, Shearer West (ed.), Bullfinch Press, Boston, 1996
  • B. Gascoigne, How to Identify Prints, Thames & Hudson, London, 2004

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