Beauty. Hand colored print. Framed. 19th Century.

We are offering Beauty Hand colored print. Lithograph, hand-colored 19th century (may be 1875-1890?) Picture size 3”(8cm) x 4.5”(10.5cm) Frame size 8.5”(21cm) x 9.5”(24cm) In the 19th century a number of different methods of color printing, using woodcut (technically Chromoxylography ) and other methods, were developed in Europe, which for the first time achieved widespread commercial success, so that by the later decades the average home might contain many examples, both hanging as prints and as book illustrations. George Baxter patented in 1835 a method using an intaglio line plate (or occasionally a lithograph ), printed in black or a dark color, and then overprinted with up to twenty different colors from woodblocks. Edmund Evans used relief and wood throughout, with up to eleven different colors, and latterly specialized in illustrations for children's books, using fewer blocks but overprinting non-solid areas of color to achieve blended colors. Artists such as Randolph Caldecott , Walter Crane and Kate Greenaway were able to draw influence from the Japanese prints now available and fashionable in Europe to create a suitable style, with flat areas of color.

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