Portrait of Senefelder

Prints and Drawings

1818

Lorenzo Quaglio
German, 1793-1869

Aloys Senefelder is credited with the invention of lithography in the last years of the 18th century. Based on the natural aversion of grease and water, it was devised as an inexpensive means of reproducing musical scores.

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Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Lorenzo Quaglio, II
Title: Portrait of Senefelder
Place: Germany (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: Made 1818
Medium: Lithograph on paper, printed from two stones
Dimensions: Image: 28.4 × 22.8 cm (11 3/16 × 9 in.); Sheet: 52 × 36.6 cm (20 1/2 × 14 7/16 in.)
Credit Line: Purchased with funds provided by Katharine Kuh, Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Eisendrath, Arthur Meeker, D.T. Bergen, Mr. and Mrs. Charles C. Cunningham and the Print and Drawing Club
Reference Number: 1966.360
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