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FLAGS OF THE UNITED STATES -1897-Chromolithograph - Antique Print

$ 11.24


 

 ANTIQUE CHROMOLITHOGRAPH PRINT OF MILITARY UNIFORMS & FLAGS 

This 114 year old chromolithograph print is from the book "MILITARY UNIFORMS & FLAGS" by Woodfall Company in1897.

The process of chromolithography is chemical, because an image is applied to a stone or zinc plate with a grease-based crayon. (Limestone and zinc are two commonly-used materials in the production of chromolithographs.) After the image is drawn onto stone, the stone is gummed with gum arabic solution and weak nitric acid, and then inked with oil-based paints and passed through a printing press along with a sheet of paper to transfer the image to the paper. Colors may be added to the print by drawing the area to receive the color on a different stone, and printing the new color onto the paper. Each color in the image must be separately drawn onto a new stone or plate and applied to the paper one at a time. It was not unusual for twenty to twenty-five stones to be used on a single image.[4] Each sheet of paper will therefore pass through the printing press as many times as there are colors in the final print. In order that each color is placed in the right position in each print, each stone or plate must be precisely ‘registered,’ or lined up, on the paper using a system of register marks.

 The artist is H. A. Ogden; signed on the plate. The image size is 8" high by 5 1/8" wide. The outside dimension of the paper is 10" H x 6 5/8" W.  Individual prints sell for up to $40 on the internet.

The print that is being auctioned is of "FLAGS OF THE UNITED STATES".


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