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unusual facts about lithograph



A Home on the Mississippi

After the end of Prohibition in 1933, Currier and Ives licensed the image to the makers of Southern Comfort, who continue to use the lithograph on their liqueur labels today.

Adolf Uzarski

While directing the advertising department of the Tietz department store, in 1916–17 he produced the portfolio of lithographs, Totentanz ("Danse Macabre").

Alexander Wolfe

Alexander's grandfather, Henri de Menthon, died and in his will he left Alexander a Rembrandt lithograph which he later sold to fund the making of his debut album and the beginning of his musical career.

Angie Lewin

Inspired by both the clifftops and saltmarshes of the North Norfolk coast and the Scottish Highlands, Lewin depicts these contrasting environments and their native flora in wood engraving, linocut, silkscreen, lithograph and collage.

Atrani

M. C. Escher's first depiction of Atrani was his early and realistic work Atrani, Coast of Amalfi, a lithograph first printed in August 1931.

Barbara Radziwiłł

A 19th-century lithograph by Michał Kulesza depicting her with pearls is considered among the painter's notable works.

Charles Haslewood Shannon

He achieved great success with his portraits and his Giorgionesque figure compositions, which are marked by a classic sense of style, and with his etchings and lithographic designs.

Dahlgren Affair

Surviving records include transcripts of the documents, which were published in several newspapers, photographs of them that were provided by Lee to Union general George Meade for investigation, and a lithograph based on the photographs that was made in Europe where Confederate agents circulated the document to stir up sympathy for their cause.

Hand with Reflecting Sphere

Hand with Reflecting Sphere also known as Self-Portrait in Spherical Mirror is a lithograph print by Dutch artist M. C. Escher, first printed in January 1935.

Jacques Zwobada

He also illustrated the work of Baudelaire in a series of twenty-five lithographs for Les fleurs du mal, as well as ten drawings for Stéphane Mallarmé's poem L'après-midi d'un faune.

James Miller McKim

McKim was depicted in the The Resurrection of Henry Box Brown at Philadelphia, a lithograph by artist Samuel W. Rowse, which was widely published to help raise funds for the Underground Railroad.

John Ayrton Paris

A lithograph of him by William Drummond is in the National Portrait Gallery, London.

Kellogg Brothers

The Kellogg Brothers were a family of lithographers and printmakers who flourished in Hartford, Connecticut from about 1830 to the end of the 19th Century.

Love Death Travel Box Set

The set also contains a specially created, hand-signed lithograph of Jim Morrison by Shepard Fairey, plus individual photos of the members photographed by Joel Brodsky in 1967.

Loyalty marketing

Allan and Ginter in the U.S. in 1886, and British company W.D. & H.O. Wills in 1888, were the first tobacco companies to print advertisements and, a couple years later, lithograph pictures on the cards with an encyclopedic variety of topics from nature to war to sports — subjects that appealed to men who smoked.

Meshach Browning

The same year Currier and Ives published a hand-colored lithograph of Tait’s black and white painting, thus immortalizing the incident.

Nathan Greene

While Bill Frist was the Senate Majority Leader, a lithograph of a Greene painting hung in his office.

Nicolas Toussaint Charlet

His "Grenadier de Waterloo", 1817, with the motto "La Garde meurt et ne se rend pas" (a famous phrase frequently attributed to Cambronne, but which he never uttered, and which cannot, perhaps, be traced farther than to this lithograph by Charlet), was particularly popular.

Skelton Hall

In 1814 Mrs Mary Thompson, the widow of Henry Thompson, came to live in Skelton at The Cottage from where she not only kept an eye on the repairs that she financed at the church, but also on the building of Skelton Lodge (later Hall) which is shown in an 1839 lithograph.

The Europeans

Meanwhile, Gertrude imagines that Eugenia will be like the lithograph of Empress Josephine hung in the Wentworth's parlor.

The Execution of Emperor Maximilian

Examples of the lithograph are held by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Massachusetts.


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