Harper's [for] Christmas – Historic Print
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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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Harper's [for] Christmas comes to life in this vintage poster, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Harper's [for] Christmas
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Edward Penfield's color poster for Harper's, issued as a Christmas promotion, shows a holiday toast rendered in the flat, bold style he brought to American magazine advertising in the 1890s. Penfield (1866-1925) was among the first American illustrators to treat the poster as a serious art form, and his work for Harper's helped establish the magazine's image as a sophisticated family periodical. The record is thin and its dating is unverified, so the piece is best understood as one of the posters that helped turn magazine advertising into a distinct graphic genre at the close of the nineteenth century.
| Created / published | 1895 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : color ; 65 x 52 cm. |
| Notes | Color poster by Edward Penfield, 1866-1925. Promotional goal: U.S. D42. 1897. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: I. Harper's magazine. Holidays; Santa Claus; Toasts. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,575 × 1,968 px · prints to 5 × 7 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-172795 |
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