Large Boston Public Garden Sketchbook: Design for a bicycle poster
Maurice Brazil Prendergast
1895–97 · Recto: watercolor over pencil, bordered in pencil and watercolor; verso: pencil · Robert Lehman Collection
This drawing was probably an idea for a competition held by the Pope Manufacturing Company of Hartford, Connecticut, in 1896 for a poster advertising their Columbia bicycle. Essentially a poster within a poster, the advertisement would seem to suggest that the festooned pedestrian ought to exchange her restrictive skirts and boa for the more liberated fashions associated with the new fad of bicycling.
- Artist
- Maurice Brazil Prendergast
- Date
- 1895–97
- Medium
- Recto: watercolor over pencil, bordered in pencil and watercolor; verso: pencil
- Department
- Robert Lehman Collection
- Credit line
- Robert Lehman Collection, 1975
