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Thanks for the pic of the stencil machine, Diderick. My impression is that most of the Epinal models were done that way. The few that have printed colors are pretty disappointing. I actually did some lithography in a class at a community college. Very tricky process if you're not a pro. The most famous lithographic artist was probably Toulouse Lautrec who, if I remember correctly, drew directly on the stones himself. Quite unusual for a poster artist of that time.
"Lautrec created his first lithograph in 1891. When he was commissioned to create a poster advertising the Moulin Rouge, he elevated the lithograph as a popular medium for advertising to the realm of high art.
Over three thousand copies of his Moulin Rouge, La Goulue were pasted on the walls around Paris, prompting an outpouring of popular and critical acclaim and turning the young artist into an overnight sensation."
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