Sujet
Flowers and Vegetables, 1800s. Creator: Anton Carl Rahn (American, born Germany, 1842-1907).
Légende
Flowers and Vegetables, 1800s. This lithograph served as an advertisement for the seeds sold at James Vick in Rochester, New York, a leading American nursery center in the latter half of the 19th century. An auxiliary business, the production of fruit and flower prints aided nurserymen and their travelling salesmen. At first the lithographs were hand coloured, but in 1871 a local company began to print in colour. Lithographs are made by drawing a design onto a stone with a greasy crayon; water adheres to the bare stone while the printing ink sticks to the greasy areas. The process was invented at the end of the 18th century and was often used after about 1820 because it is a speedy and inexpensive medium, producing more impressions compared to other tonal techniques such as mezzotint, aquatint, and stipple.
Crédit
Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art
Notre référence
HRM19F81_341
Model release
NA
Property release
NA
Licence
Droits gérés
Format disponible
74,2Mo (5,8Mo) / 37,8cm x 49,2cm / 4464 x 5809 (300dpi)