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<p>[QUOTE="springfld.arsenal, post: 83501, member: 54"]Your item is technically not a photograph but a lithograph, and that term would always be used for the item you have in museum and collector venues, no matter what the original inspiration for the final image. The lithograph image was created by a well-known delineator named Alph. Bigot. Here's another example. <a href="http://digitalcollections.smu.edu/cdm/singleitem/collection/rwy/id/482/rec/2" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://digitalcollections.smu.edu/cdm/singleitem/collection/rwy/id/482/rec/2" rel="nofollow">http://digitalcollections.smu.edu/cdm/singleitem/collection/rwy/id/482/rec/2</a></p><p><br /></p><p>There were always two principals involved in a lithograph, the delineator who made the drawing from a photo, sculpture, etc, and the lithographer, who turned the drawing into the finished product and sold it. The delineator was the artist and the lithographer was similar to a printer.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="springfld.arsenal, post: 83501, member: 54"]Your item is technically not a photograph but a lithograph, and that term would always be used for the item you have in museum and collector venues, no matter what the original inspiration for the final image. The lithograph image was created by a well-known delineator named Alph. Bigot. Here's another example. [URL]http://digitalcollections.smu.edu/cdm/singleitem/collection/rwy/id/482/rec/2[/URL] There were always two principals involved in a lithograph, the delineator who made the drawing from a photo, sculpture, etc, and the lithographer, who turned the drawing into the finished product and sold it. The delineator was the artist and the lithographer was similar to a printer.[/QUOTE]
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