Fruit Vase, hand-colored lithograph print – Antique Print
(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Step back in time with Fruit Vase, hand-colored lithograph print, an antique lithograph rich in period detail. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.
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Fruit Vase, hand-colored lithograph print
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A hand-colored lithograph of a fruit vase, the kind of still life that filled the parlors and dining rooms of the nineteenth century, sits among the crate labels on this board. Printers often used lithography to produce bright, repeatable images at low cost, and many were colored by hand, so each sheet shows slight differences in tone and brushwork. Here the arrangement of fruit spilling from an urn-shaped vessel echoes the classical still-life tradition, a visual language that made even humble produce look abundant and refined. The piece is worth noticing for how the commercial printing trade borrowed from fine art to sell fruit and vegetables to a broad public.
| Original scan | 1,092 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | 17 |
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