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| Title: | The Reading Lesson (Untitled Composition) |
| Publisher: | Sarony, Major & Knapp, New York |
| Date: | c. 1860 |
| Medium: | Original Chromolithograph |
| Napoleon Sarony (Quebec, 1821 - New York, 1896): Born of English parents in Quebec City, Napoleon Sarony learned lithography from his father and emigrated to New York in 1836. There, he worked as an apprentice for several lithographers, including Nathaniel Currier. Sarony then opened a lithographic business in partnership with Henry B. Major. The company went through a number of confusing overlapping alterations in names and partnerships. It was called 'Sarony and Major' (c. 1846 - 1857. Then Sarony's company bore the title, 'Sarony & Company' (c. 1853-1857). During the mid 1850's, Joseph Fairchild Knapp (1832-1891), entered the firm and the name of the company was expanded to 'Sarony, Major & Knapp' (c 1855 - c. 1864). During this period, the firm produced many scientific and historical works of art as well as art dealing with other genres. Napoleon Sarony left the partnership around 1864 to pursue a new career in photography. He rose to become one of America's most famous pioneers in this field. After Sarony's departure, the company took on the name of, Major & Knapp around 1864, and by 1888 it became known as The Knapp Company. Around 1890, Joseph Palmer Knapp (1864-1951), purchased the company from his father and shortly after renamed it, the 'Joseph P. Knapp Co.'. Later, the company would assume the title of the 'American Lithographic Company (ALCO)', and from 1892 to 1929, it became one of the largest lithographic firms in North America. Then in 1929 the firm was purchased by the United States Printing & Lithographic Company, and the Consolidated Litho Company took over their label producing division. | |
| These American lithographic firms printed and or published everything from advertising posters, labels and cards to fine art prints. They produced monochrome and hand-colored lithographs as well as chromolithographic prints dealing with Victorian genre, landscape views, seascapes, still life images of flowers and fruit, depictions of children and pretty women, animals and birds as well as images dealing with various scientific, historical and political topics. The lithographs were mostly based upon popular paintings, watercolors, other designs and 19th century historical photographs. | |
| Important American publishing and or printing firms that produced original lithographs and chromolithographs from the last half of the 19th century and into the early part of the 20th century include, Sarony, Major & Knapp, New York, the American Lithographic Company, New York John Winsch, New York True & Company, Augusta, Maine, Opeyfuss & Sachs, New York, H. Hallett & Co., Portland, Maine, Frank Leslie's, Illustrated Newspaper, New York, A. Hoen & Company, Richmond, Virginia, the Calvert Lithographic Company in Detroit, Michigan and others. | |
| Chromolithography: The revolutionary art of colour printmaking from lithographic stones began in Europe during the mid 1830's. The Germans, in particular, excelled in the new art form and many accomplished printers and publishers of that nationality moved to the United States at this time. The first American chromolithograph was created in 1840. During the following fifty years many of these original colour prints were made to adorn the walls of American parlours. Large and profitable businesses sprang up in almost every major city and by 1880 it had become the dominant form of artistic printmaking. The cheaper and more practical advances of photomechanical methods, however, sounded the death knell for the chromolithograph by the turn of the century. Yet, not even our most sophisticated means of reproducing images can equal the vibrant, oil-based colours of the chromolithograph, as one can clearly view from this original example. | |
| Today these chromolithographs have become very scarce, particularly the large images. A major share of the blame falls upon the ruinous methods of nineteenth century framers as they most often used the most acidic and damaging materials at hand. The result is that the majority of these important works of art have quite literally rotted away in their frames. Even surviving examples usually contain discolouration, time staining, chipping or creasing. | |
| Size: | 20 X 13 (Sizes in inches are approximate, height preceding width of plate-mark or image.) |
| UnMatted | |
| Condition: | Printed on Nineteenth Century wove paper and with full margins as published in New York around 1880. Apart from several very slight creases this original Chromolithograph is in fine condition throughout, retaining all of it brilliant coloration. Altogether, The Reading Lesson is a splendid example of 19th Century Chromolithographic art. |
| Price: | Sold - The price is no longer available. |
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Original Chromolithograph by Sarony, Major & Knapp, New York.
| The Reading Lesson |
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