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Title
Stories of the Wagner opera
Creator
Hurd, L. F., artist
Contributor
Last, Jay T., donor
Date Created and/or Issued
1895
Contributing Institution
Huntington Library
Collection
Jay T. Last Collection of Graphic Arts and Social History
Rights Information
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Description
Image of an advertisement for Stories of Wagner by H.A. Guerber; a nude woman with long flowing hair plays a lyre or harp at bottom left with a large sunburst behind her head and a circular banner listing Wagner's stories, including Rienzi, the Flying Dutchman, Tannhauser, Lohengrin, Tristan and Isolde, and the Mastersingers of Nuremburg; silhouette of a castle on a hill at top right.
Date supplied by cataloger based on copy held by the Metropolitan Museum, New York. "Hurd"--text, artist's signature on stone, bottom left of image. "By H.A. Guerber.""--text, center right of image. "Dodd, Mead & Company - Publishers - New York."--text, bottom center of image.
Type
image
Extent
1 lithograph : color printed ; overall 43.18 x 29.85 cm (17 x 11 3/4 in.)
Identifier
priJLC_ART_003119
502257
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16003coll4/id/5139
Language
English
Subject
Advertising--Books
Castles--Pictorial works
Women--Pictorial works
Lithographs--Color--1875-1900. (gmgpc)
Book & magazine posters. (gmgpc)
Source
Jay T. Last Collection
Artist Posters
Large Size
The Jay T. Last Collection of Graphic Arts and Social History, Huntington Digital Library

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