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Lessons from hell : printing and punishment in India / Christopher Pinney.

Colour and colour printing as applied to lithography : containing an introduction to the study of colour, an account of the general and special qualities of pigments employed, their manufacture into printing inks, and the principles involved in their application / by W.D. Richmond.

Die umbildung der chromolithographie : photolithographischer vier-und menrfarbendruck auf stein, zink und aluminium / von Th. Kirsten.

A balsam plant (Impatiens species): flowering stem. Chromolithograph, c. 1879, after F. Hulme.

Discoloured skin on the torso and arms of a man suffering from pityriasis versicolor. Chromolithograph by E. Burgess, 1850/1880?.

Skull of a horse. Chromolithograph, 1877.

Vishnu resting on the ocean accompanied by Lakshmi, Tumbara, Hanuman, Narada, Garuda and Brahma sitting on a lotus. Chromolithograph.

Female genitalia with a skin disease around the labia and the anus. Chromolithograph, c. 1888.

A flowering alpine milkwort (Polygala chamaebuxus var. grandiflora). Chromolithograph, c. 1878, after H. Moon.

Pummelo or Pamplemousse (Citrus maxima (Burm.) Merr.): flowering and fruiting branch with numbered fruit segment and flower section. Chromolithograph by P. Depannemaeker, c. 1885, after B. Hoola van Nooten.

A species of orchid: flowering plant with traces of surrounding vegetation. Chromolithograph by E.Vouga, c.1883, after herself.

Four plant stems with catkins, all from named types of willow (Salix species). Chromolithograph by W. Dickes & co., c. 1855.

Ganesha. Chromolithograph.

Severely diseased skin on the face and chest of a woman suffering from syphilitic tubercular lupus. Chromolithograph by E. Burgess, 1850/1880?.

The World's Columbian Exposition of 1893, Chicago: entrance to the Transportation Building. Chromolithograph with gouache after a painting by J.R. Key, 1894.

A section of leg with a skin disease. Chromolithograph, c. 1888.

A common tern (Sterna hirundo). Colour lithograph, ca. 1875.

Diseased skin on the face, scalp, chest and body of a baby suffering from pruriginous impetigo, with a detail showing the leg and foot. Chromolithograph by E. Burgess, 1850/1880?.

Banana (Musa coccinea Andr.): fruiting shoot with leaf and numbered sections of flowers. Chromolithograph by P. Depannemaeker, c.1885, after B. Hoola van Nooten.

Jambolan or Java plum (Eugenia jambolana Lam.): fruiting branch with numbered figures of inflorescence and sectioned flower, fruit and seed. Chromolithograph by P. Depannemaeker, c.1885, after B. Hoola van Nooten.

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Chromolithography

Images from the collections

Images of Chromolithography

Works from the collections

A section of leg with a skin disease. Chromolithograph, c. 1888.

A common tern (Sterna hirundo). Colour lithograph, ca. 1875.

Diseased skin on the face, scalp, chest and body of a baby suffering from pruriginous impetigo, with a detail showing the leg and foot. Chromolithograph by E. Burgess, 1850/1880?.

Banana (Musa coccinea Andr.): fruiting shoot with leaf and numbered sections of flowers. Chromolithograph by P. Depannemaeker, c.1885, after B. Hoola van Nooten.

Jambolan or Java plum (Eugenia jambolana Lam.): fruiting branch with numbered figures of inflorescence and sectioned flower, fruit and seed. Chromolithograph by P. Depannemaeker, c.1885, after B. Hoola van Nooten.

Chromolithography

Images from the collections

Images of Chromolithography

Works from the collections

A section of leg with a skin disease. Chromolithograph, c. 1888.

A common tern (Sterna hirundo). Colour lithograph, ca. 1875.

Diseased skin on the face, scalp, chest and body of a baby suffering from pruriginous impetigo, with a detail showing the leg and foot. Chromolithograph by E. Burgess, 1850/1880?.

Banana (Musa coccinea Andr.): fruiting shoot with leaf and numbered sections of flowers. Chromolithograph by P. Depannemaeker, c.1885, after B. Hoola van Nooten.

Jambolan or Java plum (Eugenia jambolana Lam.): fruiting branch with numbered figures of inflorescence and sectioned flower, fruit and seed. Chromolithograph by P. Depannemaeker, c.1885, after B. Hoola van Nooten.

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