About the Artwork
The Chap-Book
1894
Elisha Brown Bird
1867-1943
American
Unknown
Commercial relief process printed in color ink
Image: 17 1/2 × 11 7/8 inches (44.5 × 30.2 cm) Sheet: 18 3/4 × 13 1/8 inches (47.6 × 33.3 cm)
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Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Collection of the Detroit Institute of Arts
1989.168
Copyright Not Evaluated
Markings
Signed, in plate, lower right: E. B. BIRD
Inscribed, in plate, upper left of image: THE | CHAP | BOOK
Provenance
1989-present, found in the collection of the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)For more information on provenance, please visit:
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Malhotra, Ruth, and Christina Thon, et al. Das Fruhe Plakat in Europa und den USA, Vol. 1, Grossbrittanien und Vereinigte Staaten von Nordamerika. Berlin, 1973, no. 147.
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Elisha Brown Bird, The Chap-Book, 1894, commercial relief process printed in color ink. Detroit Institute of Arts, Collection of the Detroit Institute of Arts, 1989.168.
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