He may have been offered an opportunity to work on the lithographic stone in Berlin and used it to grapple with problems of draftsmanship.

Cappiello would also be responsible for ensuring the successful transfer of the design onto lithographic stone ready for printing.

The initial technique involved the use of multiple lithographic stones, one for each color, and was still extremely expensive when done for the best quality results.

Zincography, with zinc plates, later replaced lithographic stones, and remained the most common method of color printing until the 1930s.

The former is the initial, original creation of the artist - the etching into the plate, the drawing on the lithographic stone and so on.

It was not unusual for him to work on several different publications simultaneously; he could draw directly onto the lithographic stone to save time.

The panorama which was in the process of printing, as well as the lithographic stones were useless.

This quarry was the only commercial source of lithographic stone in the United States at the turn of the 20th century.

The drawing he discovered was in fact a romantic pencil sketch of a castle, done by Cole on a lithographic stone.

He was also a good draftsman and did his own drawings, also taking care of their transfer to the lithographic stone.