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The Chap-Book

Will H. Bradley, Artist Stone and Kimball, Publisher
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About the Artwork

The Chap-Book

1895

Will H. Bradley (Artist) American, 1868-1962 Stone and Kimball (Publisher) American

Commercial relief process printed in color

image: 20 x 13 3/8 in. 50.9 x 34.0 cm sheet: 21 1/4 x 14 5/8 in. 53.9 x 37.2 cm

Posters

Prints, Drawings & Photographs

Collection of the Detroit Institute of Arts

1989.100

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In plate, lower left center of image: BRADLEY

In plate, upper right of image: MAY; lower center of image: THE CHAP- / BOOK

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Published References

Malhotra, Ruth, Christina Thon, et al., Das Fruhe Plakar in Europa und den USA. Vol. 1, Grossbritannien und Vereinigte Staaten von Nordamerika. Berlin: Gebr. Mann, 1973, no 154.

Kiehl, David, et al., American Art Posters of the 1890s in the The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Including the Leonard A. Lauder Collection. New York, 1987, no 18.

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Will H. Bradley, The Chap-Book, 1895, commercial relief process printed in color. Detroit Institute of Arts, Collection of the Detroit Institute of Arts, 1989.100.

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The Chap-Book
The Chap-Book