Buy ENGRAVING LITHOGRAPH. SQUARE OF THE TOWN HALL OF ALICANTE. COLOUR. LEMERCIER.

- Lithograph, stone engraving in colour.
- The engraving shows the Alicante Town Hall square, with people dressed in typical costumes of the period.
- In the lower left and right margins are the signatures of the authors. The lithographer's name appears in the left-hand margin, and the printer's name appears on the right. The publisher appears in the centre.
- Lemercier & Cie was a large Parisian lithographic printing company founded by Joseph Rose Lemercier (1803-1887).
- Louis Jules Arnout (1814-1868), a lithographer of great renown at the time.
- This is a stone engraving, a lithograph. Lithography dates from the 18th century and consists of stamping a design that is previously made on a limestone with pencil or special inks, and then applying an ink that only adheres to the areas that have been treated with these materials.
- It is large, rectangular and unframed.
- It is very important that the engraving has a Distinctive, Mark or Contrast, in order to be able to identify data such as the engraver, the artist, the place where it was printed and other details.