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FEfascinatingeurope.bsky.socialSep 2, 2024 4:38pm

🇬🇧🎨 Westminster Abbey in London - a chromolithograph by Thomas Ashburton Picken from 1851 #London #Westminster #WestminsterAbbey #England #UK #Britain #UnitedKingdom #FascinatingEurope #Europa #Europe #heritage #cityscape #architecture #art #artwork #vintage #oldviews #lithography #chromolithography

OJowjones.bsky.socialAug 30, 2024 2:28pm

Bookcase door panel https://collections.artsmia.org/art/60509/

door (keyhole on L edge) with scroll and foliate inlaid design; floral forms in corners. Architecture - Fragment
After extensive study travels throughout Egypt, Turkey, and Spain, Owen Jones published Plans, Elevations, Sections and Details of the Alhambra in 1842. This pioneer work illustrated Islamic design motifs and was the first major British work printed in chromolithography. Jones's own adaptation of the Islamic style is best exemplified by the interiors he created for 16 Carlton House Terrace, the London townhouse of scholar and antiquarian Alfred Morrison (1821-1897). Jones and Morrison's passion for Orientalism and craftsmanship, with the help of Morrison's considerable fortune, resulted in a rich layering of ornament throughout the townhouse's first two floors. Nearly every surface was decorated with exotic woods, enamel, marble, or gilding in geometric and naturalistic patterns. This door panel from a bookcase illustrates the archeologically-inspired Pompeian theme of Morrison's study, where he displayed Venetian glass, Chinese vases, and metalwork from his collection. Jones's designs for furniture and paneling, including this piece, were executed by London's most respected cabinetmakers, the firm of Jackson and Graham. Note in this gallery the enameled glass flasks, also designed for Morrison's townhouse by Owen Jones, and the Etruscan table made by Jackson & Graham from Alexander Prignot's design.

kennethconway.bsky.socialAug 24, 2024 2:00am

@gallicabnf Détail de la façade de l'Usine Menier à Noisiel. Encyclopédie d'architecture, revue mensuelle des travaux publics et particuliers (vol. 6). Paris, 1877. c.bnf.fr/SHw #Gallica #BnF#bibliothèque#library #Noisiel #Menier #usine #factory #chromolithographie #chromolithography

DLsaori4partyrocking.bsky.socialAug 21, 2024 6:10am

What next, silkscreening? Chromolithography? Movable type? why aren't you either doing every part of the process yourself or paying someone to do granular things, for a composition that wouldn't have existed otherwise. I'm not a boomer but God did not intend for man to see moving pictures on screen

DLsaori4partyrocking.bsky.socialAug 4, 2024 10:27pm

https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Chromolithography#Opposition_to_chromolithography

"Opposition to chromolithography"

"Even though chromolithographs served many uses within society at the time, many were opposed to the idea of them because of their perceived lack of authenticity. The new forms of art were sometimes tagged as "bad art" because of their deceptive qualities. Some also felt that it could not serve as a form of art at all since it was too mechanical, and that the true spirit of a painter could never be captured in a printed version of a work. Over time, many chromos came to be made so cheaply that they could no longer be confused with original paintings. Since production costs were low, the fabrication of cheap chromolithographs became more a business than the creation of art, in contrast with the high quality chromolithographs targeted primarily at art-oriented audiences."

georgesberger.bsky.socialJul 10, 2024 9:12am

Self portrait in France David Hockney 1975 Chromolithography

KEthemedievaldrk.bsky.socialJun 11, 2024 3:16pm

thinking of the boom in illumination how-to guides following the development of chromolithography!

DLdrbibliomane.bsky.socialJun 10, 2024 8:19pm

I just succumbed to temptation and bought from an Etsy dealer in Montréal a set of 7 Language of Flowers-themed album cards. (I did not notice the spelling errors on them until just now). Manufactured by the German immigrant to the US, Louis Prang, likely in 1860s Boston. Tag yourself?

7 tiny cards (each about 2.5'' high) representing constancy ("honeysuckel [sic]), childhood ("pimpenel" [sic]), fascination ("carnation"), modesty (violet), humility (lilies of the valley), joy (hawthorn), taste (fuchsia). Background is white , lettering is red; the cards are printed in multiple colors: Prang was a pioneer of chromolithography.

MSmercedessheldon.bsky.socialApr 19, 2024 7:34pm

The imperialist creates a world of a colony that is different than the actual world - chromolithography enhanced such “worlding” as visual differences were represented through color on the page.

Slide showing scholarly text defining “worlding.”

MSmercedessheldon.bsky.socialApr 19, 2024 7:26pm

After technical difficulties, Athria Mohan shares with us the importance of chromolithography revolutionized #C19 #MVSA2024 team for troubleshooting such that Mohan could share her scholarship with us!

Slide showing chromolithographic rendering infographic.