XEE4408923 Alois Senefelder (or Aloysius or Aloys) or Johann Nepomuk Franz Aloys (1771-1834), a Czech poet and engraver, remains without a sheet of paper in a moment of anger and despair that led him to throw everything into the flames, wrote the note of the laundry on a stone. He invented lithography. Plate taken from ??????Scenes de la vie des hommes famous??????????engraving in two shades by Valerio. 1843. by French School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Alois Senefelder (or Aloysius or Aloys) or Johann Nepomuk Franz Aloys (1771-1834), a Czech poet and engraver, remains without a sheet of paper in a moment of anger and despair that led him to throw everything into the flames, wrote the note of the laundry on a stone. He invented lithography. Plate taken from ??????Scenes de la vie des hommes famous??????????engraving in two shades by Valerio. 1843.); Stefano Bianchetti; French, out of copyright.