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Harper's November / Edward Penfield. – Historic Print

Harper's November / Edward Penfield., [1897] — vintage poster
Harper's November / Edward Penfield., [1897]. Vintage poster from the Horses collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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This rare vintage poster captures Harper's November / Edward Penfield. in remarkable detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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Edward Penfield's poster for the November issue of *Harper's* is one of many he made for the magazine in the 1890s, and its catalog record names horses as its subject. Penfield designed a run of monthly *Harper's* posters, using flat areas of color, bold outlines, and simplified shapes that made them readable from across a street. Posters like this were a major part of American magazine advertising at the time, and they helped establish commercial illustration as a respected art form. The poster's date of 1897 places it in the decade when color lithography was becoming cheap enough for mass display.

Created / published[1897]
Medium1 print (poster) : color.
GenreAdvertisements 1890-1900.Posters American 1890-1900.Prints Color 1890-1900.
NotesPromotional goal: U.S. 42.
SubjectsHorses--1890-1900.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,456 × 1,159 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-217048

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