Antique selling Photochrom Print Dutch Girls Vintage Art Photo Marken Island Holland Netherlands Eiland Marken Visschersmeisjes

Vintage Photochrom Print, circa 1900, of two Visschersmeisjes (Fishermen's Girls) of Eiland Marken (Marken Island) in North Holland. Rare image of the unique historical dress and fishing culture of Marken Island at the turn of the last century.

Labeled 17476 P.Z. EILAND MARKEN VISSCHERSMEISJES

Photochrom (Fotochrom, Photochrome or The Aac Process) is a process for producing colorized images from the black-and-white photographic negatives via the direct photographic transfer of a negative onto lithographic printing plates. The process is a photographic variant of chromolithography.

The Photochrom Process was invented in the 1880's by Hans Jakob Schmid (1856-1924) while he worked for the Swiss firm Orell Fussli. Fussli published prints through a company called Photochrom Zurich, later selling Photoglob Zurich. This particular print was released through Photochrom Zurich/Photoglob Zurich as indicated by the "P.Z." in the label.

The print is approximately 8 1/2 x 6 1/2 inches unframed. It is in a scroll edged wood frame with multiple chips along the edges. Frame has an aged hanging wire and thin board back held in with metal tacks/nails. Framed it measures 12 1/2 x 10 1/2 inches.