Large Boston Public Garden Sketchbook: Design for a bicycle poster

Maurice Brazil Prendergast American

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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.

Large Boston Public Garden Sketchbook: Design for a bicycle poster, Maurice Brazil Prendergast (American, St. John’s, Newfoundland 1858–1924 New York), Recto: watercolor over pencil, bordered in pencil and watercolor; verso: pencil

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