The Century magazine for June – Vintage Print
(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 Century magazine for June, 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 Century magazine for June
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Women and flowers are the two subjects this color poster puts front and center, and it was made to announce the June 1896 issue of *The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine*. The poster is credited to Louis John Rhead (1857-1926), an English-born illustrator who settled in the United States and worked on posters and magazine art during the decade's boom in color printing. The Century Company of New York published the magazine, which was among the leading general-interest monthly periodicals of its day. Posters like this one show how publishers used flat areas of color and graceful figures, drawn from the Art Nouveau style then spreading across Europe, to catch the eye of buyers at newsstands and bookstores.
| Created / published | 1896 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : color ; 53 x 27 cm. |
| Notes | Color poster by Louis John Rhead, 1857-1926. New York, The Century company. Promotional goal: U.S. D42. 1896. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: I. The Century illustrated monthly magazine. Women; Flowers. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 815 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-172781 |
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