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American scrapbook of Victorian chromolithographic art prints
Collection
Identifier: MSS 0093-Item 0035
Abstract
The creator of this scrapbook of Victorian art prints is unknown but presumed to be American as many of the images were published by H. Hallett & Co. of Portland, Maine, or by Knapp Co. Lith. for the Sunday Art Supplement to the New York Recorder. The scrapbook features large chromolithographic prints (and cut-out images from prints) of beautiful women, mothers and children, cherubs, flowers and fruit, animals, American characters, and George and Martha...
Dates:
1871-1896
Late Victorian era British scrapbook of chromolithographic plates
Collection
Identifier: MSS 0093-Item 0046
Abstract
This late nineteenth-century British album, created by an unknown author, features scraps, chromolithographic prints, and original artwork, with many images containing motifs of Orientalism and depictions of the colonial British Far East. Other common themes include fashion, religion, literature, and landscapes.
Dates:
Majority of material found within approximately 1895
Salesman’s samples of late Victorian prints and embossed die-cuts
Collection
Identifier: GRA 0133
Abstract
These salesman’s samples of late Victorian prints and embossed die-cuts consist of 150 chromolithographic posters with two traveling cases. The collection includes idealized portraits of women, comic scenes, prints of babies and children, and genre and landscape scenes.
Dates:
approximately 1890s