Portrait of Senefelder
- Medium
- Lithograph on paper, printed from two stones
- Dimensions
- Image: 28.4 × 22.8 cm (11 3/16 × 9 in.); Sheet: 52 × 36.6 cm (20 1/2 × 14 7/16 in.)
- Genre
- lithograph
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Tags
printprints and drawingpaper (fiber product)lithograph
About
Aloys Senefelder is credited with the invention of lithography in the last years of the 18th century. Based on the natural aversion of grease and water, it was devised as an inexpensive means of reproducing musical scores.