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Title
The Century : midsummer holiday number
Creator
Rhead, Louis, 1857-1926, artist
Century Company, publisher
Date Created and/or Issued
1895
Contributing Institution
Huntington Library
Collection
Prints and Ephemera
Rights Information
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Description
Image of an advertisement for the Century Magazine midsummer 1895 issue featuring a woman in flowing Classical garb sitting outdoors next to a sundial holding a large leave over her head for shade; sunflowers and sailboats on the water in background; sliced melon and fruit in foreground at right.
Date supplied by cataloger based on copy held by the Metropolitan Museum, New York. "Louis J. Rhead"--text, artist's signature on stone, bottom right of image.
Type
image
Extent
1 lithograph : color printed ; overall 50.8 x 36.2 cm (20 x 14 1/4 in.)
Identifier
priHHC_ART_0000247
502589
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p9539coll1/id/24157
Language
English
Subject
Advertising--Periodicals
Sailboats--Pictorial works
Sunflowers--Pictorial works
Women--Pictorial works
Lithographs--Color--1875-1900. (gmgpc)
Book & magazine posters. (gmgpc)
Source
Huntington Prints and Ephemera Collection
Artist Posters
Large Size
Prints and Ephemera, Huntington Digital Library

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