Pug dog head on gold octagonal chromolithograph card – Vintage Print
(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
Description
This antique lithograph of Pug dog head on gold octagonal chromolithograph card brings a moment of history to your wall. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.
Choose the framed print, ready to hang the day it arrives, or the unframed print for a frame of your own. It brings character to any room and makes a memorable gift. Free shipping in the lower 48 states. Snapshots of the Past, founded in 2001, has served tens of thousands of customers worldwide.
Pug dog head on gold octagonal chromolithograph card
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A pug's head sits centered on this gold octagonal chromolithograph card, the eight-sided frame and metallic ground marking it as a piece of late nineteenth-century trade printing rather than a painting or a photograph. Cards like this were made in large runs by color lithography, with several stone or plate passes building up the dog's wrinkled brow and dark muzzle. Pugs were a popular fashion in Victorian households and appeared often on advertising and decorative ephemera of the period. Because the card was meant to be cut out, kept, or handed over with a product, its small scale and bright ink say as much about everyday commerce as about the breed itself.
| Original scan | 825 × 825 px |
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| Reference | D6 |
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