Image of an advertisement for The Century magazine December 1894 Christmas number featuring a woman wearing a dress patterned with holly leaves holding a peacock aloft on a platter under a spring of mistletoe. Item originally owned by illustrator Curtis Wager-Smith (1870-1950). Artist and date supplied by cataloger based on copy held by the Metropolitan Museum, New York. "A.S. Seer’s Print, N.Y."--text, bottom left of image. "Containing Christmas Stories, Poems and Pictures; 25 full-page illustrations, Rudyard Kipling's first American story, the opening of Mrs. Burton Harrison's novel, etc., and interesting chapters in The New Life of Napoleon"--text, bottom center of image.
Type
image
Extent
1 lithograph : color printed ; overall 101.92 x 76.52 cm (40 1/8 x 30 1/8 in.)
Advertising--Periodicals Mistletoes--Pictorial works Peacocks--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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