Empress Augusta leaves New York (Kaiserin Augusta verlässt Newyork), Carl Saltzmann, chromolithograph. Link is to image page on Wikipedia. The available hi-res image is much larger than my crops.
Carl Saltzmann, who was active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, was known for his seascapes and landscapes. Here, as the beautiful ship leaves the harbor, the scene is convincingly bathed in the soft illumination of twilight and punctuated by the light of Liberty’s torch.
The images above are not of Saltzmann’s original painting, but of a chromolithograph of that painting.
Chromolithographs were an early form of color printing, in which the use of multiple lithograhpy stones for different colors, combined with team labor, allowed for commercial color printing of images using a few colors or many. At their most expensive in terms of the number of stones and difficulty of preparation, they resembled modern process printing.
Magnified, you can see the random looking distribution of colors on the printed surface, in contrast to the more ordered patterns of most modern printing (images above, bottom two).
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