Assorted dogs in a rural landscape, chromolithograph – Vintage Print
(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
Description
Few images capture their era like this antique lithograph of Assorted dogs in a rural landscape, chromolithograph. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.
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Assorted dogs in a rural landscape, chromolithograph
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Rather than a single portrait, this chromolithograph gathers a mix of dogs together in an open countryside setting, so the scene reads more as a study of canine variety than a record of one animal. Chromolithography, a process that layered several stone or metal plates to build up color, was widely used in the late 1800s to make affordable prints for magazines, calendars, and home walls. Prints like this one often served both as decoration and as a way to show off the range of breeds that rural and sporting households kept. Look closely at the textures of coats and the soft, layered colors of the background, which show how much skill went into each separate printing stage.
| Original scan | 1,004 × 580 px |
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| Reference | D24 |
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