Fair Play: dogs in a landscape, chromolithograph – Historic Print
(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
Description
A window into the past: Fair Play: dogs in a landscape, chromolithograph, preserved in this antique lithograph. It comes from the Snapshots of the Past collection, curated over 25 years for its historical value.
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Fair Play: dogs in a landscape, chromolithograph
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The title *Fair Play* gives this chromolithograph its particular angle: a dog subject set in an open landscape, with the name suggesting a theme of sportsmanship or companionship. Chromolithography built up color from a separate stone for each hue, and in the later 1800s it made richly colored images affordable for ordinary homes. Prints like this one were often bought as decorative pictures, and their sentimental treatment of dogs reflects the period's strong affection for these animals as companions and working partners. Look closely at the layered color and the soft transitions in the landscape, which show the care needed to align several stones.
| Original scan | 1,004 × 584 px |
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| Reference | Dog37 |
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