May 2 - Jacob Christoph Le Blon, German painter and engraver who invented the system of three- and four-colour printing (died 1741)
Chromolithography became the most successful of several methods of colour printing developed by the 19th century; other methods were developed by printers such as Jacob Christoph Le Blon, George Baxter and Edmund Evans, and mostly relied on using several woodblocks with the colours.
D'Agoty was born in Marseille, and became a pupil of the painter and engraver Jacob Christoph Le Blon, with whom he invented a method of etching and mezzotint print which incorporated for the first time colors (blue, yellow and red).
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