This image is a photochrom. Photochroms are not photographs but actual prints, produced using 6 to 15 colors and the lithography printing process. The technique was invented by the Swiss Hans Jakob Schmid during the 1880s. The photochrom process was most popular in the 1890s, when true color photography was first developed but still commercially impractical.
That's a wonderful photograph that's been painted with colored ink, I guess. Beautiful country.
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ReplyDeletePhotochroms are not photographs but actual prints, produced using 6 to 15 colors and the lithography printing process. The technique was invented by the Swiss Hans Jakob Schmid during the 1880s.
The photochrom process was most popular in the 1890s, when true color photography was first developed but still commercially impractical.