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Lippincott's for April – Vintage Wall Art

Lippincott's for April, 1895 — vintage poster
Lippincott's for April, 1895. Vintage poster from the Books & Writers 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 Lippincott's for April in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Few 1890s posters announce a single month's issue as plainly as this one, which promotes the April 1895 number of *Lippincott's Monthly Magazine*. The Philadelphia publisher J.B. Lippincott & Company had issued the magazine since 1868, offering fiction and essays to a broad American readership. William L. Carqueville's color design belongs to the wave of illustrated magazine posters that filled American streets during the decade, when publishers competed for attention with bold lithographic art. The date rests on an old caption card, so the details are best treated as provisional.

Created / published1895
Medium1 print (poster) : color ; 48 x 32 cm.
NotesColor poster by William L. Carqueville, 1870-1946. Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott. Gift of Mrs. Grand Foreman. Promotional goal: U.S. D41. 1895. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: I. Lippincott's monthly magazine. Posters; Books.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,005 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-172765

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