Harper's [for] August – Vintage 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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This rare vintage poster captures Harper's [for] August in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Harper's [for] August
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Edward Penfield's 1897 poster for the August issue of Harper's Magazine stands out for its bold flat color and its clean, graphic handling of a woman's figure, a style that helped define American magazine advertising in the 1890s. Penfield, who worked from New York for Harper & Brothers, produced a series of these posters to promote the monthly, and they were pasted on hoardings and billboards where passersby could read them at a glance. The record notes that the caption card is unverified, so the exact details of its distribution are uncertain, but the poster's simple shapes and strong color show why Penfield's work was so influential in graphic design of the period.
| Created / published | 1897 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : color ; 48 x 34 cm. |
| Notes | Color poster by Edward Penfield, 1866-1925. New York, Harper & Brothers. Promotional goal: U.S. D42. 1897. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: I. Harper's Magazine. Women. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,092 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-172790 |
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