Columbia & Cuba - magazine cover - nudy study – Historic Reproduction
(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.)
Description
A window into the past: Columbia & Cuba - magazine cover - nudy study, preserved in this historic drawing. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Columbia & Cuba - magazine cover - nudy study
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A pencil study for a magazine cover, this drawing pairs Columbia, the allegorical figure long used for the United States, with Cuba, the island at the center of the 1898 Spanish-American War. Dated to about 1898, the year the United States fought Spain over Cuban independence, the work reflects how American illustrators turned the conflict into symbolic figures for a national audience. Because it is a nude study, the artist was likely working out the anatomy and pose before the final printed design. Its surviving pencil lines show the planning behind an image meant to be reproduced widely.
| Medium | 1 drawing : pencil. |
|---|---|
| Genre | Nudes. |
| Notes | [ca. 1898] |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 944 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-142368 |
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