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Scribner's fiction number, August / Maxfield Parrish 1897. – Antique Print

Scribner's fiction number, August / Maxfield Parrish 1897., [S.l. : s.n., 1897] — vintage poster
Scribner's fiction number, August / Maxfield Parrish 1897., [S.l. : s.n., 1897]. Vintage poster from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(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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Step back in time with Scribner's fiction number, August / Maxfield Parrish 1897., a vintage poster rich in period detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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A nude figure sits absorbed in a book, a subject that sets this poster apart from the flowers, portraits, and landscapes more typical of magazine art of its day. It advertised the August fiction number of Scribner's Magazine, the New York monthly published by Charles Scribner's Sons. Maxfield Parrish, then a young illustrator building his reputation for luminous color and idealized figures, designed it as a color lithograph, a process that let his soft, saturated tones reach a large public at poster size. The piece shows how 1890s publishers used striking art to sell literary magazines to a growing reading audience.

Created / published[S.l. : s.n., 1897]
Medium1 print (poster) : lithograph, color ; 51 x 38 cm.
GenreBook & magazine posters American 1890-1900.Lithographs Color 1890-1900.
NotesTitle from item.
SubjectsNudes--1890-1900. Reading--1890-1900.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,124 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-172759

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