Vintage Litho Primitive Colonial Child Portrai Art Girl on Bench

Description: Buy any 3 items and get free shipping! 8x10 Plexiglass frame, print slightly smaller. This colonial girl sitting on a bench is part of a 13 piece collection of child portrait prints with 2 other children holding books. 3 would look good together! Just want the lithograph and mat without the frame? Price is $25. Or a different frame? Check out the listing of a solid wood frame. The last two photos show what a different colonial print looks like in the wood frame, and without a frame, but if you order from this listing, you will get this print. More frames to come... Wanting to see those frames, you favorite Zeiss Galleries and continue to read... The original painting is done in the style of Matthew Prior in the early 1800s, is called "Girl Seated on Bench," and is housed in the Rockefeller Folk Art Center. The offset lithographic print offered here is a reproduction of the original painting. This offset lithograph is part of an amazing and unique collection of Colonial Primitive child portrait offset lithographs of 13 original Colonial paintings. The number 13 is significant=number of U.S. colonies. The person who decided to create this collection is unknown, but they were purchased in 2020 at a Connecticut home, where the 13 portraits in this group lined the entryway hall. From the back one can tell that the offset lithographs have been reframed once (not by me). How amazing! you think as you pin your favorite photo and read on... All prints are professionally matted and framed in an unobtrusive Plexiglass frame that gives them a sleek modern twist. There are 6 prints matted blue, 3 matted green, and 2 matted terracotta (brown-orange) (2 terracotta have sold). What is an offset lithograph? It is a photomechanical process where the negative of a photograph (here, of the work of art) is used to produce metal or rubber plates for each color of the print. (Colors will be comprised of rows of dots). Each plate will be mechanically pressed onto the paper. When all the colors have been pressed on, a type of "rosette" will be formed (a small circle of all the colors). Offset lithographs were the only way to make large numbers of prints and were popular in the 1950s. They are more stable than digital prints. I would date this collection to the 1970s because of the offset lithography process and because trends tend to have 100 and 50 year cycles. The Colonial trend would have been big in the mid 1970s, and maybe is coming back now, closing in on 2026. Get your favorites before they're gone or purchase them all to own a unique collection. Placing 3 prints in your cart, you glowing in the warmth of free shipping!

Price: 27 USD

Location: Evanston, Illinois

End Time: 2025-01-30T19:26:51.000Z

Shipping Cost: 5 USD