Base ball / Aquarelle print by L. Prang & Co. – Antique Print
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
Description
Step back in time with Base ball / Aquarelle print by L. Prang & Co., an antique lithograph rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Base ball / Aquarelle print by L. Prang & Co.
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This color lithograph by L. Prang & Co. uses the firm's "aquarelle" technique, which built up many stone impressions to imitate the soft washes of a painted sketch. Prang was a Boston printer known for chromolithographs sold to a broad middle-class market, and its work from the 1880s shows how commercial color printing had become. Baseball was expanding quickly across the United States in those years, with professional leagues and local clubs drawing large crowds, so the print reflects a sport that had become a popular subject for mass-produced art.
| Created / published | c1887. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph, color. |
| Genre | Lithographs Color 1880-1890. |
| Subjects | Baseball--United States--1880-1890. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,063 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-110542 |
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