Landscape
1803
Medium
Lithograph on ivory wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 30.3 × 21.9 cm (11 15/16 × 8 5/8 in.); Sheet: 39.1 × 27.6 cm (15 7/16 × 10 7/8 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
41780
Rights
Public Domain
About this artwork
Henry Richard Greville was not a professional printmaker, but rather one of many aristocrats who pursued lithography as a hobby. Lithography depends upon the antipathy of grease and water, so a lithographer draws on a smooth block of limestone in a greasy medium—crayon or a liquid wash called tusche. When printing ink is applied to the wet stone, it only sticks to the drawn lines. The first collection of lithographs, or polyautographs, Specimens of Polyautography, was published in London in 1801...