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Lithography - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Using lithographic turpentine, the printer then removes the greasy drawing material, leaving only the salt layer; it is this salt layer which holds the skeleton of the image's original form. |
 | | Within a few years of its invention, the lithographic process was used to create multi-color printed images, a process known by the middle of the 19th century as Chromolithography. |
 | | Goya's lithographs The Bulls of Bordeaux (1828) and Delacroix's illustrations to Goethe's Faust were the groundbreaking "artist's lithographs" that sparked a flood of (mostly French) artists who dabbled in lithography, including Prud'hon, Cezanne, Manet, Toulouse-Lautrec, and, of course, its greatest practitioner, Daumier, whose prints began to appear in the 1830s. |
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