1819
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
Dominant colour
Art of the Lithograph: Dedication Sheet, Plate VII is a 1819 by Alois Senefelder, a Romanticism work, held at Cleveland Museum of Art.
This print shows a bare-chested man holding a staff and a bird in one hand. He stands on a pedestal, looking upward with his other arm raised. The background is plain, but the edges of the frame are decorated with gold patterns and fleur-de-lis symbols. The text around the image explains that this print celebrates lithography, a new way of making copies of art. The words are in French and mention the process was invented in Bavaria. Look up lithography next to see how this printing method worked.
Johann Alois Senefelder was a German actor and playwright who invented the printing technique of lithography in the 1790s.
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