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chromolithographs

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  • noun Plural form of chromolithograph.

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Examples

  • Spain -- averring in humorous exaggeration that beside a Velasquez most other paintings were little better than chromolithographs.

    Austin and His Friends Frederic H. Balfour

  • The dining-room was decorated with German quatrains, and two chromolithographs, one of which was sentimental: _In the

    Jean-Christophe Journey's End Romain Rolland 1905

  • There was a great white wooden bedstead, by the bedside was a great Bible on a shelf, artificial flowers were on the mantelpiece, with photographs of the old man's two wives and eleven children -- and at the bottom of each photograph he had written the date of birth and death -- on the walls were framed texts and vile chromolithographs of Mozart and Beethoven.

    Jean-Christophe, Volume I Romain Rolland 1905

  • In it stands a high, neatly, made bed; above it hang cheap photographs in still cheaper frames, small chromolithographs, etc.

    The Dramatic Works of Gerhart Hauptmann Volume I Gerhart Hauptmann 1904

  • Cheap chromolithographs of Gregorian saints hang on the walls of the saloon, and with them are mingled fancy pictures of Tiflis and Baku cafe-chantant belles.

    Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama Thomas Stevens 1894

  • Rome, three shiny chromolithographs of English country scenes, representing the four seasons minus one, an absurd French engraving,

    Diversions in Sicily Henry Festing Jones 1889

  • On suspended shelves stood the books which she desired to have near her, and round about the walls hung prints, photographs, chromolithographs, selected in an honest spirit of admiration, which on the whole did no discredit to Nancy's sensibilities.

    In the Year of Jubilee George Gissing 1880

  • The most valuable features of this charming little book are the excellent map of a little-known region, and the beautiful chromolithographs from M. von Fellenberg's drawings, which will give the inexperienced

    Paris and Northern France 1867

  • It contains, besides the chromolithographs of the 74 plates, an introduction published at Leipzig,

    Aids to the Study of the Maya Codices Sixth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1884-85, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1888, pages 253-372 Cyrus Thomas 1867

  • But by 1860, not long before he died, popular taste and the alternatives available in the market (chromolithographs, for example) had changed.

    artforum.com 2009

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