Posted 4 years ago
ho2cultcha
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I found this yesterday. It's in such perfect condition! The handwritten inscription on the back is done in the coolest script i've ever seen! There is a small label from Crane's Art Gift Shop in Pomona, CA. There are no little dot matrix patterns in this, so it's not a lithograph. You can see different surfaces - like shiny in some areas and matte in others. Maybe a chromolithograph? or maybe a watercolor? I probably need to remove it from the frame to know for sure, but nobody has removed it ever from the looks of it.
ho2culture...if you have a loop..take a look with it..if you can see lots of little dots, it’s a print ..:-)
Nice find!!
Regardless it looks nice. And fyi...An original lithograph is when the artist creates the work of art on a stone plate. The word "lithograph" means, "stone print". Lithography works on the simple physical principal that oil and water do not mix.
Thanks inky, jscotto and dav2no1! yes, i've inspected it w/ a very good loop - a large one and there are no dots at all.
Nice. Lithographs do not necessarily have dots. Hand pulled lithographs can be difficult to distinguish from a watercolor. The best way to quickly determine if it is a watercolor or hand pulled lithograph is to look at the borders of the image. A lithograph will typically have sharp borders and the borders of a watercolor will "meander". I do, however, have a set of original watercolors painted by a professional graphic artist who always laid down a border using masking tape and them pulled that up when finished making a sharp border. Out of the hundreds of watercolors that I own, though, these are the only watercolors I have ever seen with a sharp border.
Offset lithography and some other printing methods can be identified by the dots....
https://www.invaluable.com/blog/what-is-a-lithograph/
The foxing is suggestive that this is a watercolor but the texture looks a bit off to me.
There's a lot of stuff going on..are they having a party on the steam ship? The color palette is an interesting choice. And I agree..texture is different also..