Harper's Magazine, Christmas, 1892 – Antique Wall Art
(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 vintage poster of Harper's Magazine, Christmas, 1892. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Harper's Magazine, Christmas, 1892
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Here the advertising turns to the Nativity, a religious subject that gives this holiday poster a sacred theme rather than a generic festive one. The color lithograph is attributed to Eugène Grasset, a Swiss-born designer working in Paris whose flat outlines, decorative borders, and stylized figures were part of the poster boom of the early 1890s. Its 1892 date shows how an American publisher could draw on European graphic design to promote a magazine to a holiday audience.
| Created / published | 1892 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster). |
| Subjects | Color lithograph by Grasset. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Holidays; Religion--Nativity; Adv.--Books & mags; Publ. Ind. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,098 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-149694 |
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