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Title: A century of charades
Creator: Hallowell, Geo. H., 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
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Description: Image of an advertisement for A Century of Charades by William Bellamy; central figure of a winged sphinx with owls at left and right; stylized sun rays in background.
Date supplied by cataloger based on copy held by the New York Public Library. "Geo. H. Hallowell."--text, artist's signature on stone, bottom right of image. "'The cleverest work of its kind known to English literature,' says Mr. Clapp, the eminent Boston critic."--text, top center margin. "By William Bellamy Price One Dollar"--text, bottom center of image.
Type: image
Extent: 1 lithograph : color printed ; overall 41.43 x 31.12 cm (16 5/16 x 12 1/4 in.)
Identifier: priJLC_ART_003098
502235
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16003coll4/id/5137
Language: English
Subject: Advertising--Books
Owls--Pictorial works
Sphinxes (Mythology)--Pictorial works
Lithographs--Color--1875-1900. (gmgpc)
Book & magazine posters. (gmgpc)
Source: Jay T. Last Collection
Artist Posters
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The Jay T. Last Collection of Graphic Arts and Social History, Huntington Digital Library

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