Hallen and Weiner New York - Christmas Night

Christmas Night

Hallen & Weiner's original chromolithograph. Christmas Night is printed on sturdy 19th century wove paper and with full margins as published in New York by the American publishing company around 1885. It is a splendid example of nineteenth century Victorian era chromolithographic art.

Original Chromolithograph published by the American Publishing Company, Hallen & Weiner, New York.

Christmas Night

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Title:	Christmas Night
Publisher:	Hallen & Weiner, NY
Date:	c. 1885
Medium:	Original Chromolithograph
Note:	Hallen & Weiner: The publishing firm of Hallen & Weiner, New York is known to have been active during the late 19th century and early 20th century. They produced chromolithographic prints dealing with Victorian genre, such as landscape views, seascapes, still life images of flowers and fruit, children, animal and bird depictions as well as images dealing with various important holidays, religious and political subjects. The lithographs were mostly based upon popular paintings and watercolors. Other important American publishing companies that published original chromolithographs from that period include, Sarony, Major & Knapp, New York, the American Lithographic Company, New York John Winsch, New York True & Company, Augusta, Maine, Opeyfuss & Sachs, New York, H. Hallett & Co., Portland, Maine, Frank Leslie's, Illustrated Newspaper, New York, A. Hoen & Company, Richmond, Virginia, the Calvert Lithographic Company in Detroit, Michigan and others.
	Chromolithography: This term includes all types of lithography printed in colour. By using a series of carefully registered stones, a chromolithograph requires an individual printing for every colour required. Some of the more complicated examples ran to more than thirty printings.
	During the nineteenth century, chromolithography was used for everything from advertising to fine art. The most famous examples are the large art nouveau posters of Lautrec, Grasset, Berthon and others. Christmas Night is truly unique work of Americana art.
	The revolutionary art of colour printmaking from lithographic stones began in Europe during the mid 1830's. The Germans, in particular, excelled in the new art form and many accomplished printers and publishers of that nationality moved to the United States at this time. The first American chromolithograph was created in 1840. During the following fifty years many of these original colour prints were made to adorn the walls of American parlours. Large and profitable businesses sprang up in almost every major city and by 1880 it had become the dominant form of artistic printmaking. The cheaper and more practical advances of photomechanical methods, however, sounded the death knell for the chromolithograph by the turn of the century. Yet, not even our most sophisticated means of reproducing images can equal the vibrant, oil-based colours of the chromolithograph.
	Today these chromolithographs have become very scarce, particularly the large images. A major share of the blame falls upon the ruinous methods of nineteenth century framers as they most often used the most acidic and damaging materials at hand. The result is that the majority of these important works of art have quite literally rotted away in their frames. Even surviving examples usually contain discolouration, time staining, chipping or creasing.
Reference:	P. C. Marzio, The Democratic Art: Pictures for a 19th Century America, Boston, David R. Godine, 1979
Size:	13 X 17 3/4 (Sizes in inches are approximate, height preceding width of plate-mark or image.)
	Matted with 100% Archival Materials
Condition:	Printed on sturdy nineteenth century wove paper and with full margins as published in New York by Hallen and Weiner. Contains slight traces of water staining along the lower margins, else a beautiful, unfaded printing and in fine condition throughout. Altogether Christmas Night is a splendid example of 19th century chromolithographic art.
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