Lorenzo Quaglio
German, 1793-1869
Portrait of Senefelder
INV-1093
Lorenzo Quaglio
German, 1793-18691818
Portrait of Senefelder
Lorenzo Quaglio German, 1793-1869 →lithographprint
Date
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.)
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Location
Chicago, IL
Credit
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
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.