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Harper's July – Antique Print

Harper's July, [1898] — vintage poster
Harper's July, [1898]. Vintage poster from the Cats & Dogs 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 July in remarkable detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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Harper's July

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This color poster advertises the July issue of *Harper's*, the New York illustrated monthly published by Harper & Brothers, and its cat subject sets it apart from the magazine's usual portraits and landscapes. Colorful lithographed posters like this were pasted in shops and on city hoardings to draw attention to new issues in the 1890s. Cats were a favorite motif of the decade's illustrators, who often used them to suggest leisure, charm, and domestic comfort. The record dates the piece to about 1898, a period when American magazine art was flourishing.

Created / published[1898]
Medium1 print (poster) : color.
GenreAdvertisements 1890-1900.Posters American 1890-1900.Prints Color 1890-1900.
NotesPromotional goal: U.S. D42. 1898.
SubjectsCats--1890-1900.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,456 × 1,143 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-217087

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