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| c. 1780 |
| | | Japanese artist Kitagawa Utamaro is a master of colour woodcuts, often depicting the courtesan district of Edo | |
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| 1798 |
| | | Austrian author Alois Senefelder, experimenting with grease and water on stone, discovers the principles of lithography | |
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| 1825 |
| | | The elderly Francisco de Goya becomes the first great artist to attempt lithography | |
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| 1830 |
| | | Hokusai begins to publish his famous colour-printed views of Mount Fuji | |
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| 1838 |
| | | John James Audubon completes publication of the 435 plates forming his 4-volume Birds of America | |
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| 1849 |
| | | Scottish painter David Roberts completes publication of his 6-volume The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt & Nubia | |
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| 1855 |
| | | English artist William Simpson sends sketches from the Crimea which achieve rapid circulation in Britain as tinted lithographs | |
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| 1855 |
| | | The Christmas issue of the Illustrated London News includes chromolithographs, introducing the era of colour journalism | |
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| 1879 |
| | | English physicist Joseph Swan receives a patent for bromide paper, which becomes the standard material for printing photographs | |
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