Harper's August / Edward Penfield. – Antique Wall Art
![Harper's August / Edward Penfield., [1896] — historic image](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/cd/cda9815745a0-L.webp)
(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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Few images capture their era like this historic image of Harper's August / Edward Penfield.. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Harper's August / Edward Penfield.
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Edward Penfield's 1896 poster for the August issue of *Harper's* advertises a new Mark Twain story, "Tom Sawyer, Detective," in its caption, while the image shows fashionable summer leisure, with women and men in bathing suits and light summer dress. Penfield was one of the most prominent American poster designers of the 1890s, and his work for *Harper's* used flat fields of color and bold silhouettes to stand out on newsstands. Magazine posters like this were a relatively new form of advertising at the time, and they now preserve a record of the clothing and seaside styles of the decade.
| Created / published | [1896] |
|---|---|
| Subjects | Man wearing a swimsuit and smoking a cigarette seated next to a woman wearing blouse, skirt, and hat. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Posters: Artist Posters |
| Original scan | 3,737 × 4,657 px · prints to 12 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 6 |
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