About the Artwork
The Chap-Book
1896
Claude Fayette Bragdon (Artist) American, 1866-1946 Stone and Kimball (Publisher) American
Commercial lithograph and relief process printed in color ink
Image: 16 7/8 × 12 1/8 inches (42.9 × 30.8 cm) Sheet: 18 1/4 × 12 1/2 inches (46.4 × 31.8 cm)
Posters
Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Collection of the Detroit Institute of Arts
1989.167
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Markings
Signed, in plate, center right edge: [artist's monogram]
Inscribed, in plate, upper center of image: THE | Chap-Book | PRICE FIVE CENTS Inscribed, lower center of image: THE | Chap-Book | SEMI- MONTHLY Inscribed, lower center: Being a MISCELLANY of Curious and | Interesting Songs, Ballads, Tales, His- | tories &c. | adorned with a variety | of pictures and very delightful to | read; newly composed by MANY | CELEBRATED WRITERS; To which | are annex'd a LARGE COLLECTION | of Notices of Books
Provenance
1989-present, found in the collection of the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Kiehl, David, et al. American Art Posters of the 1890s. Exh. cat., Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 1987, no. 37.
Malhotra, Ruth, and Christina Thon, et al. Das Fruhe Plakat in Europa Und Den USA, vol. 1, Grossbritannien und Vereinigte Staaten von Nordamerika. Berlin, 1973, no. 185.
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Claude Fayette Bragdon, The Chap-Book, 1896, commercial lithograph and relief process printed in color ink. Detroit Institute of Arts, Collection of the Detroit Institute of Arts, 1989.167.
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