The Bock beer maid / Wilson, Wagner & Co., Lith., Chicago. – Historic Print
(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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The Bock beer maid / Wilson, Wagner & Co., Lith., Chicago. comes to life in this antique lithograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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The Bock beer maid / Wilson, Wagner & Co., Lith., Chicago.
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The Bock beer maid is a chromolithograph printed in Chicago by Wilson, Wagner & Co., dated to around 1886 or 1887, and its title names a figure who was meant to sell a specific product. Bock is a strong lager traditionally brewed in winter and released in spring, and advertisers of the period often used cheerful figures like this one to make beer seem festive. Color lithography was then a popular and relatively inexpensive way to produce eye-catching advertising, and this piece shows how skilled Chicago printers had become by the late 1880s. The subject's clothing also reflects the dress of the decade, which makes the print useful to historians of fashion.
| Created / published | Chicago : Wilson, Wagner & Co., c1886, c1887 Mar. 28. |
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| Medium | 1 print : chromolithograph. |
| Genre | Advertisements 1880-1890.Chromolithographs Color 1880-1890. |
| Subjects | Beer--1880-1890. Clothing & dress--1880-1890. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 988 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-112205 |
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