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How Lithography Changed Illustration and Commercial Printing

October 25, 2026 by Tony
Duotone red and navy illustration of a hand drawing a sweeping mark on a large lithography stone beside a press, with framed portrait prints extending toward a city street filled with silhouetted pedestrians.

Lithography made drawing reproducible without translating every mark into carved wood or engraved metal. Its evolution from limestone to color printing and offset presses reshaped illustration, advertising and the everyday printed page.

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