A Pen Drawing and Musical Notes, from “Receuil Papyrographique”

Alois Senefelder1820

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Title: A Pen Drawing and Musical Notes, from “Receuil Papyrographique”
Creator: Alois Senefelder
Date Created: 1820
Set or Series Title: Lithographic Collection (Recueil papyrographique: Premiers essais de l’impression chimique sur cartons lithographiques contenant quatre planches dans les differents genres usités)
Object Type: Prints, works of art
Object Link: See this artwork on the Davison Art Center website
Object Credit Line: Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University. Purchase funds, 1964
Materials & Techniques: Pen lithograph
Keywords: early lithography, lithography, music, printmaking, printmaking techniques
Image Credit Line: Open Access Image from the Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University (http://www.wesleyan.edu/dac/openaccess)
Edition: Although 500 copies of the publication were printed (see cover), few complete sets in this state of preservation survive. Published chez Senefelder & Comp.ie rue Servantoni, No. 13, Paris, 1820.
Bibliography: Carl Wagner, Alois Senefelder. Sein Leben und Wirken (Liepzig, 1914), pp. 154 and 155 (figure 52 is a reproduction of the explanatory plate)
Associated People: Created by Alois Senefelder (German, 1771-1834)
Accession Number: 1964.29.1.3

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