Art Institute of Chicago
Portrait of Senefelder
Lorenzo Quaglio
- Date
- 1818
- Medium
- Lithograph on paper, printed from two stones
- Culture
- Germany
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
Aloys Senefelder is credited with the invention of lithography in the last years of the 18th century. Based on the natural aversion of grease and water, it was devised as an inexpensive means of reproducing musical scores.
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- Object type
- AAT300041273
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