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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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Also Known As chromolithograph • colour lithograph • chromo

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