Portrait of Senefelder

Art Institute of Chicago

Portrait of Senefelder

Lorenzo QuaglioLinkedCulture matchlcp-b1d07fe0ad64

Date
1818
Medium
Lithograph on paper, printed from two stones
Culture
Germany
Department
Prints and Drawings
Institution
Art Institute of Chicago
Object ID
109315

From the Art Institute of Chicago record

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.

View at Art Institute of Chicago ↗

The authoritative record is held by Art Institute of Chicago. LinkedCulture surfaces this object and its connections; it does not alter institutional metadata.

Get printable QR codes

Open QR codes for this object page and the museum record. They stay collapsed until needed.

Open this page QR destination: https://linkedculture.org/q/q1.umzLGf7cCXX38PJa.JwG7duH6G-c3nAtQcO8uAs0a_nQ2C2YYGwDAqAoALMrYHlHKi3Z3uSctP9JCco-460AfrCLMeJhKbrw4D8oU_IWlLrzliYD5vmBh-qm7DijvCIAoAOH-kC4k3EOeT3vVTaVlPI_2RaLec6IwaU5tDzfZw1rhQHcSsgkVRk5g16FrE_Q9JBFrgVWIMbOtkydMpL5vqueW2x6thJFij4CgigtqQ2o5Keaqnj_nGMjLN1Db-_-JKvuK5xiYa_nkE5D8V3EosXQt4KksOLGBEZwd-mNX0AeNSee at Art Institute of Chicago QR destination: https://linkedculture.org/q/q1.0uScMgaDCgIfO9lw.pkTU3-bdR2c-rJrj_VfA2Z9v_VJlx8joo0vSGxFCbVlS5NwvorsN4ek1vGndyMwuDr_u7tRcKqxLuIwFGVZaKqHKQKkEGilKnnbPhz54KeJDGYxd2-_3ETrr0rFq-q6gBgwR_nuJpMI37TFP6wPlF3DIF5_CdyYUcdX1cbP-DBH4OQVGCBMVGtbFA9EikNEc9KxAhIASqkoJ-PSboPWef6pPFW0ptssj4Ob-jKeHFoHZs2zYYFjTjyrpvUxTkenY6DMz4rbR6EYBmM37kfTptdtwLw
Open this page
See at Art Institute of Chicago

Provenance & credit

As published by the source institution. Coverage varies — not every institution's open-data feed includes ownership history.

Credit line
Purchased with funds provided by Katharine Kuh, Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Eisendrath, Arthur Meeker, D.T. Bergen, Mr. and Mrs. Charles C. Cunningham and the Print and Drawing Club

Linked open data

Authority identifiers that link this record into the wider web of cultural data — stable references you can follow to the source.

Object type
AAT300041273

Related across collections

Semantically similar works from Art Institute of Chicago and other institutions.