1796 In Art
Events from the year 1796 in art. Events * Printing by lithography is invented by Alois Senefelder in Bohemia. Works * Henry Fuseli – '' The Night-Hag visiting the Lapland Witches'' * Anton Graff – '' George Leopold Gogel '' * Antoine-Jean Gros – '' Bonaparte at the Pont d'Arcole'' * Hugh Douglas Hamilton – '' Lord Edward Fitzgerald'' * Thomas Lawrence – ''The Children of John Julius Angerstein'' * Henry Raeburn – '' Rev. Alexander Carlyle'' * Edward Savage – '' The Washington Family'' * Gilbert Stuart – Lansdowne portrait of George Washington * J. M. W. Turner – '' Fishermen at Sea'' (his first oil painting to be exhibited at the Royal Academy) * Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun - '' Portrait of Countess Yekaterina von Engelhardt'' Births * February 3 – Jean-Baptiste Madou, Belgian painter and lithographer (died 1877) * February 5 – Pieter Godfried Bertichen, Dutch painter and lithographer (died 1856) * May 24 – Étienne-Jules Ramey, French sculptor and ...
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Lithography
Lithography () is a planographic method of printing originally based on the immiscibility of oil and water. The printing is from a stone (lithographic limestone) or a metal plate with a smooth surface. It was invented in 1796 by the German author and actor Alois Senefelder and was initially used mostly for musical scores and maps.Meggs, Philip B. A History of Graphic Design. (1998) John Wiley & Sons, Inc. p 146 Carter, Rob, Ben Day, Philip Meggs. Typographic Design: Form and Communication, Third Edition. (2002) John Wiley & Sons, Inc. p 11 Lithography can be used to print text or images onto paper or other suitable material. A lithograph is something printed by lithography, but this term is only used for fine art prints and some other, mostly older, types of printed matter, not for those made by modern commercial lithography. Originally, the image to be printed was drawn with a greasy substance, such as oil, fat, or wax onto the surface of a smooth and flat limestone plat ...
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