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Oleograph: Quick Facts

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Facts

Also Known As chromo • colour lithograph • chromolithograph

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oleograph
A variety of 19th-century tin packages decorated by means of chromolithography.
Chromolithographic poster for the Cincinnati Industrial Exposition, 1883.
Battle of Franklin (1864), chromolithograph by Kurz & Allison, 1891.
Brooklyn Bridge
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Key People

Edvard Munch
Edvard Munch
Norwegian artist
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Jacques Villon
French painter
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Jakob Christof Le Blon
painter and engraver