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THE INTRODUCTION OF COLOR onto the pictorial plane, as far as we know, began in the prehistoric Euro-pean caverns of the Upper Paleolithic era, when paleolithic man is known to have engraved ritualistic imagery of animals. Precise reasons our an-cestors incised and painted these images remain a bone of contention among the "experts"; it seems more likely as not the images were proto-symbols of the hunt. Regardless of their purpose, the early cavern pictor-ials were the first known engravings of Western culture. How soon color came into play we can't be certain, but the same Homo sapiens not only colored the primitive wall etchings, but had unwittingly began a form of human expression irrevocably bound within its social context, known to us today as "art". (Click : "Purpose/Philosophy" ) Every pictorial medium today owes its ancestral pedigree to the first colored engravings on those cavern walls of paleolithic Europe.

NOW COME 30 TO 10, 000 years beyond the Upper Paleolithic, moving "forward" into the late 18h century, the artists' facility for drawing on stone, rather than engraving, was revisited; this time around for commercial reasons rather than ... whatever reasons our distant ansestors sought, that have has yet to be discovered. (Click : "Chromolithograph""Cave Art", "Earth color" & "Lithography" in Art Terms; and see our "Knowing the Difference" pages) 

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"Under the Mistletoe" 1884 10 5/8" x 7 1/2" Chromolith. (Artist not credited) Publisher : "Frank Les-lie's Popular Monthly". Printer : Gast Art Press/N.Y. Excellent con-dition; archival tape applied verso edges for support. Includes copy of dated title page.  $150.00
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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"Winter Quarters" 1883 10 1/2" x 7 1/2" Chromolith. (Artist not credited).  Publisher : "Frank Les-lie's Popular Monthly". Excellent condition; archival tape at verso edges for support. Includes copy of dated Title page.    RARE  $325.00
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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"Spanish Flower Girl" 1882 (after) KARL SOHN, Jr. (Lithographer uncred-ited) 10 5/8" x 7 3/8"  Chromolith. Publisher : "Frank Leslie's Popu-lar Monthly"/New York. Very good condition. Includes copy of dated Title page. (Click : "Know-ing the Difference", p.2)  $150.00
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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"Lost Bird" 1885 
10 5/8" x 7 1/4" chro-molith. (Artist not credit-ed) Printer : Cosack & Co./N.Y. Publisher : "Frank Leslie's Popu-lar Monthly". Good condition; some light staining around mar-gins/archival repair verso at mar-gin edge. Includes copy of dated Title page.            $275.00
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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"The Cicada" 1882
(after)  Emile Metzmacher
"La Cigale"
11 3/8" x 8 1/4" Chromolith.
From the multi-volume compen-dium "Character Sketches of Ro-mance Fiction and the Drama" by the Reverend Ebenezer Brewer. In excellent condition. Subject is a derivative of Aesop's fable "The Grasshopper and the Ant", of which there have been many in-terpretations by painters and play-wrights. This pic. includes the ori-ginal poetic insert from the char-acter "Marton" : 
 
"Oh Franz, 'tis hard to live ...
   My dear old home
 of by-gone years..."
 
... and the artist's bio.
RARE      $325.00
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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"You Darling" 1883
10 1/2" x 7 1/2" (Artist not credited). Publisher : "Frank Leslie's Popular Month-ly". Printer : Cosack & Co./Buf-falo, N.Y. Excellent condition; archival tape at verso edges for support. Includes copy of dated Title page.    RARE  $125.00
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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"For the Pastor" 1883
(after) John Everett Millais  10 1/2" x 7 1/2"  Chromolith. Publisher : "Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly". Printer : Cosack & Co./Buffalo, N.Y.  Excellent condition; archi-val tape at verso edges for support. Includes copy of dated Title page.    RARE $375.00
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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"Any Port in a Storm"
1887  11" x 7 1/2" 
Chromolith. (Artist not credited).  Publisher : "Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly". Printer : Cosack & Co./Buffalo, N.Y.  Excellent condition ; archi-val tape at verso edges for support. Includes copy of dated Title page.    RARE  $275.00
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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"Our Little Lady" 1888 10 1/2" x 7 1/2" Chromo-lith. (Artist not credited).  Publisher : "Frank Leslie's Popu-lar Monthly". Printer : "Cosack & Co. Lith"/ Buffalo, N.Y. Excellent condition; archival tape at verso edges for support. Includes copy of dated Title page.         $150.00
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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"Loves Young Dream" 1882 (after) A. Jourdan
10 7/8" x 7 1/4" Chromo-lith. Printed by Major & Knapp , N.Y. Published by "Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly". Includes copy of dated Title page/artist's bio. Excel-lent condition. 
VERY RARE   $525.00
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
            
 
 
 

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"Little Sunbeam" 1882 10 3/4" x 7 3/8"  Chromo-lith. (artist not credited/ probably after John Everett Millais).

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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"Homes of the Passing Show" 1900  Dudley Hardy 8 3/4" x 6 1/4"  Original Chromolith.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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"A Mean Advantage" 1883
10 3/4" x 7 1/4" Chromolith 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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"Little Mischief Makers" 1883
10 3/4" x 7 3/8" Chromolith 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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