Lithographic Sketches:  It is the End of the World! (frontispiece)

Cleveland Museum of Art

Lithographic Sketches: It is the End of the World! (frontispiece)

Nicolas Toussaint Charlet

Date
1824
Medium
lithograph
Culture
France, 19th century
Department
Prints
Institution
Cleveland Museum of Art

The museum's extensive collection of early lithography documents the development of the technique in Europe. Invented by a German, Alois Senefelder (1771-1834), in 1798 for commercial purposes, lithography was quickly adopted by artists. Lithography did not begin in France until 1816, however, when two workshops were established in Paris. By 1824 so many lithographs were being produced that a deluge of lithographic albums could end the world!

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