1890 Victorian lithography Art Print Gustav May Germany Kitty Cats Eggs Playing

Description

Hello,  you are bidding on a beautiful and rare antique from circa 1890-1900 German chromolithograph print.
Printing house of Gustav May&Sone Frankfurt A.M.
The best quality print from the era on paper with glossy finish, that depicting Kitty cats
playing
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It is excellent preserved for its age with still fresh colors. Titled in few languages ''Hide and Seek''. Originate from private collection
Measures:
16 3/4'' x  12 3/4''
Please, be sure to view all photos  carefully as they are included as part of the item description.
See my other listings for more prints from the Victorian era.
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Chromolithograph or chromo, color lithograph produced by preparing a separate stone by hand for each color to be used and printing one color in register over another. The term is most often used in reference to commercial prints. Sometimes as many as 30 stones were used for a single print. The technique was pioneered in the 1830s but came into wide commercial use only in the 1860s. It was the most popular method of color reproduction until the end of the 19th century, when more efficient techniques rendered it obsolete.
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Gustav May Sone:
The company was founded on December 22nd, 1845 by the autodidact in the lithography shop Eduard Gustav May (1818–1907) in the Großer Hirschgraben with an old hand press. First, May published art sheets based on works by Frankfurt artists. May made the first big deal in 1848 with the order of the publisher Keller to produce views of the Paulskirche and the parliament as well as portraits of the members of parliament. As a result, May bought six new presses, which he used to print event pictures and political caricatures in large numbers. In the 1850s, the company produced not only colored artist illustrations, but also a series of portraits of Frankfurt dignitaries and artists. In 1860 the company moved to a new building at Eschersheimer Landstrasse 28/32. At this time May also began to produce delicately colored gene graphics for upper-class home furnishings.
From 1850 to 1863 Johann Gustav Wirsing was a partner in the company, which was now called May & Wirsing. Thanks to Wirsing's capital support, the company was able to develop into a picture manufacturer. The majority of the popular graphics were depictions of saints and biblical motifs for the Catholic country house. The mundane motifs included genre pictures, scenes from children, animal motifs, landscapes and seascapes. From 1864 the company called itself E. G. May again. In 1870 the first high-speed press was installed, which accelerated the output of the goods. Some of the goods were exported abroad, from 1870 also to Spain and overseas. The Franco-Prussian War offered the opportunity to print en masse battle pictures and portraits of princes. Since 1877, chromolithographic congratulatory cards for export to England formed the main part of the business.
1878-1914: E. G. May Sons
Logo of E. G. May Sons
After E. G. May left the company in 1878, his two sons Robert and Franz took over the company, which was renamed E. G. May Sons. In 1880, the Mays sold off all of the old production in order to concentrate only on the chromolithography business from now on. In 1880/82 the factory was expanded with seven size IV high-speed presses and another ten in size V in 1884/86. In 1881 Fridolin Leiber became head of the lithographic studio.
Friedrich Diefenbach became a junior partner and expanded the company commercially by opening up new markets and sales methods. Since the aging May sons did not have a company manager who knew the industry, Diefenbach's successor Carl Döring was only able to save the company by merging with the relentlessly competing Dresden company Kunstanstalten AG in 1914. The Kunstanstalten May AG (KAMAG) emerged from the merger. The similarity of the name is coincidental; the KAMAG owner Adolf May jun. was not related to the Frankfurt Mays.
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