William Sharp (1803–1875) was a British-born painter who is credited with introducing
chromolithography
Chromolithography is a method for making multi-colour printmaking, prints in lithography, and in theory includes all types of lithography that are printed in colour. However, in modern usage it is normally restricted to 19th-century works, and ...
to America in 1840.
[Meggs, Philip B. ''A History of Graphic Design''. 1998 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. p. 147]
Sharp had worked for the lithographer
Charles Hullmandel
Charles Joseph Hullmandel (15 June 1789 – 15 November 1850) was born in London, where he established and maintained the first Lithography, lithographic establishment in London on Great Marlborough Street from about 1819 until his death. He intro ...
in London. On his arrival in Boston in 1840, Sharp became partners with Francis Michelin, another former employee of Hullmandel.
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References
Image gallery
Image:Victoria regia – William Sharp.jpg, Victoria regia; chromolithograph (after John Fisk Allen)
Image:'Victoria Water Lily' by William Sharp in 'Victoria regia', 1854, Loy McCandless Marks Library.jpg, Victoria water lily
Image:1851 RailroadJubileeOnBostonCommon byWilliamSharp MFABoston.png, Railroad Jubilee On Boston Common, 1851
External links
WorldCat
British emigrants to the United States
1803 births
1875 deaths
British printmakers
British botanical illustrators
Artists from Boston
19th-century American lithographers
19th-century British lithographers
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