William Sharp (1803–1875) was a British-born painter who is credited with introducing
chromolithography
Chromolithography is a method for making multi-colour prints. This type of colour printing stemmed from the process of lithography, and includes all types of lithography that are printed in colour. When chromolithography is used to reproduce ph ...
to America in 1840.
[Meggs, Philip B. ''A History of Graphic Design''. 1998 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. p. 147]
Sharp had worked for the lithographer
Charles Hullmandel in London. On his arrival in Boston in 1840, Sharp became partners with Francis Michelin, another former employee of Hullmandel.
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References
Image gallery
Image:Victoria regia – William Sharp.jpg, Victoria regia; chromolithograph (after John Fisk Allen)
Image:'Victoria Water Lily' by William Sharp in 'Victoria regia', 1854, Loy McCandless Marks Library.jpg, Victoria water lily
Image:1851 RailroadJubileeOnBostonCommon byWilliamSharp MFABoston.png, Railroad Jubilee On Boston Common, 1851
External links
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English emigrants to the United States
1803 births
1875 deaths
English printmakers
Botanical illustrators
Artists from Boston
American lithographers
English lithographers
19th-century lithographers
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