Oct 14, 2004 - Sale 2016

Sale 2016 - Lot 49

Price Realized: $ 1,955
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
J. J. GOULD, JR LIPPINCOTT'S APRIL. 1897.
161/4x131/8 inches.
Condition A. Paper.
Combining the best elements of all American posters (humor, timeliness, typography and design), this image depicts a bourgeois member of society, so enthralled by his magazine that he is indifferent to the rain (to the amused glances of his fellow pedestrians), despite having an umbrella under his arm. The street is so crowded, the scene cannot be contained by the confines of the poster. Not in Kiehl, DFP I 260, Margolin p. 82, Keay p. 65.