1819
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
Art of the Lithograph: Head of an Amazon, Plate XIV is a 1819 by Alois Senefelder, a Romanticism work, held at Cleveland Museum of Art.
This black-and-white drawing shows a woman’s face and shoulders turned slightly to the side. Her hair is piled high in loose curls, and she wears a high-necked dress with ruffled sleeves. The lines are soft, with shading that makes her features stand out. The caption below says this was drawn on paper and then transferred to stone—a method called lithography. It looks like the artist focused on her expression and the texture of her hair. Check out how Alois Senefelder made this using lithography.
Johann Alois Senefelder was a German actor and playwright who invented the printing technique of lithography in the 1790s.
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