id: 123548
accession number: 1944.14
share license status: CC0
url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1944.14
updated: 2023-04-22 12:24:26.597000
Flowers and Vegetables, 1800s. Anton Carl Rahn (American, born Germany, 1842–1907). Lithograph; sheet: 51.8 x 39.5 cm (20 3/8 x 15 9/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of The Print Club of Cleveland, for the Donald Gray Memorial Collection 1944.14
title: Flowers and Vegetables
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creation date: 1800s
creation date earliest: 1800
creation date latest: 1899
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creditline: Gift of The Print Club of Cleveland, for the Donald Gray Memorial Collection
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culture: America, 19th century
technique: lithograph
department: Prints
collection: PR - Lithograph
type: Print
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CREATORS
* Anton Carl Rahn (American, born Germany, 1842–1907) - artist
Anton Carl Rahn, born Worms, Rheinland-Pfalz (Rhineland-Palatinate), Germany May 23, 1842. Father: Johann Heinrich Rahn; Mother: Elixabetha Friedrica Rüdel; Wife: Emma B. Rahn (1844-1915); 3 children: Arthur (1868-1932), Emma, and Anton. Anton Carl Rahn and his wife and son, Arthur, are buried in the Mt. Hope Cemetery, Rochester, NY.
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measurements: Sheet: 51.8 x 39.5 cm (20 3/8 x 15 9/16 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
title: Four Modes of Composition
opening date: 1954-09-10T04:00:00
Four Modes of Composition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 10-October 27, 1954).
title: Flower and Fruit Prints and Drawings
opening date: 1960-05-25T04:00:00
Flower and Fruit Prints and Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 25-October 10, 1960).
title: Flower Prints
opening date: 1965-05-07T04:00:00
Flower Prints. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 7-June 6, 1965).
title: The Perennial Garden: 18th and 19th Century Botanical Prints
opening date: 1983-05-03T04:00:00
The Perennial Garden: 18th and 19th Century Botanical Prints. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 3-July 31, 1983).
title: The Flowering of the Botanical Print
opening date: 2016-03-26T00:00:00
The Flowering of the Botanical Print. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 26-July 3, 2016).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
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PROVENANCE
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This lithograph served as an advertisement for the seeds sold at James Vick in Rochester, New York, a leading American nursery center in the latter half of the 19th century. An auxiliary business, the production of fruit and flower prints aided nurserymen and their travelling salesmen. At first the lithographs were hand colored, but in 1871 a local company began to print in color. Lithographs are made by drawing a design onto a stone with a greasy crayon; water adheres to the bare stone while the printing ink sticks to the greasy areas. The process was invented at the end of the 18th century and was often used after about 1820 because it is a speedy and inexpensive medium, producing more impressions compared to other tonal techniques such as mezzotint, aquatint, and stipple.
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RELATED WORKS
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CITATIONS
Catalogue of an exhibition of the art of lithography: commemorating the sesquicentennial of its invention, 1798-1948. [Cleveland]: The Cleveland Museum of Art, November 11, 1948-January 2, 1949.
page number: Mentioned: p. 57
url: https://archive.org/details/Lithography/page/n63
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IMAGES
web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1944.14/1944.14_web.jpg
print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1944.14/1944.14_print.jpg
full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1944.14/1944.14_full.tif