The Illustrated sporting news. Christmas number / Drawn by Edward Penfield. – Historic Reproduction
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(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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A window into the past: The Illustrated sporting news. Christmas number / Drawn by Edward Penfield., preserved in this vintage poster. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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The Illustrated sporting news. Christmas number / Drawn by Edward Penfield.
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A toast between a couple takes center stage on this Christmas number cover for *The Illustrated Sporting News*, a New York sporting paper's holiday issue. Edward Penfield, one of the leading American poster and magazine illustrators of the 1890s, drew it as a color lithograph, a process that let printers lay down bold, flat areas of ink. The design reflects the period's taste for simplified figures and the holiday custom of raising a glass at year's end. Penfield's clear silhouettes and limited palette helped make magazine covers of this era widely recognized.
| Created / published | [New York : s.n., between 1890 and 1900] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : lithograph, color ; 36 x 26 cm. |
| Genre | Covers (Illustrations) 1890-1900.Posters American 1890-1900.Lithographs Color 1890-1900. |
| Notes | Title from item. |
| Subjects | Couples--1890-1900. Toasting--1890-1900. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,914 × 6,157 px · prints to 16 × 21 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-226058 |
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