The bull in the China shop / Dalrymple.
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Print shows John Bull as a bull in the "China Department" of a shop selling tablewares, he is charging a cabinet labeled "China Department" on the left, with dishes labeled "Port Arthur - Reserved for Russia", "Kiao Chau - Reserved for Germany", Ta-Lien-Wan - Reserved for France; on the right is a table labeled "Hainan" set with dishes labeled "Canton, Hong Kong, [and] Formosa" and "For France", and on a shelf is a vase labeled "Tonquin - Presented to France". Uncle Sam is standing on the right outside the shop and a woman holding a parasol labeled "Japan" and a fan labeled "Wei-Hai-Wei" is standing on the left; they are watching John Bull.
Caption: What the European trouble-makers may expect if England doesn't get free ports in China.
Illus. from Puck, v. 43, no. 1096, (1898 March 9), centerfold.
Copyright 1898 by Keppler & Schwarzmann.
Alois Senefelder, the inventor of lithography, introduced the subject of colored lithography in 1818. Printers in other countries, such as France and England, were also started producing color prints. The first American chromolithograph—a portrait of Reverend F. W. P. Greenwood—was created by William Sharp in 1840. Chromolithographs became so popular in American culture that the era has been labeled as "chromo civilization". During the Victorian times, chromolithographs populated children's and fine arts publications, as well as advertising art, in trade cards, labels, and posters. They were also used for advertisements, popular prints, and medical or scientific books.
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