19th century and subsequently, and are of finer quality, generally suitable for framing as prints. Autolithographs are prints where the artist draws, and sometimes prints, their own limited number of reproductions.

Origins

Alois Senefelder, the inventor of lithography, introduced the subject of coloured lithography in his 1818 Vollstaendiges Lehrbuch der Steindruckerey (A Complete Course of Lithography), where he told of his plans to print using colour and explained the colours

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