Bicentennial Lithograph

The UT Knoxville Bicentennial Committee commissioned a hand-printed lithograph by Robert Cothran of the Theatre Department and Beauvais Lyons of the School of Art. The lithograph purports to be a publication of the UT Tricentennial Committee in 2094, reproducing a lithograph made in 1894 by Cassius Demetrius Hokes (yes, hoax) depicting the campus as it would appear in 1994. In the lower right corner is the contraption that Hokes claims to have used to create the image—a “chronomorphoscope,” which allowed him to see into the future. One hundred lithographs were made.