Lithography,Lithographs

A method created in the late eighteenth century, of printing from a prepared flat stone, or a plate. A drawing is made on the stone or plate with a greasy crayon or tusche, and then washed with water. When ink is applied it sticks to the greasy drawing is resisted by the wet surface allowing a print to be made of the drawing. The artist then covers the plate with a sheet of paper and runs both through a press under light pressure. For color lithography separate drawings are made for each color. George Catlin, Doris Lee, Grant Wood, Louis Lozowick, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec and Honoré Daumier were all masters of Lithography.