The Red Letter

1896

Elisha Brown Bird, Artist Forbes Co., Printer Badger and Bird Barta, Publisher

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About the Artwork

Title The Red Letter

Artwork Date 1896

Makers Elisha Brown Bird (Artist) American, 1867-1943 Forbes Co. (Printer) American Badger and Bird Barta (Publisher) American

Medium Commercial lithograph printed in color

Dimensions image: 23 x 15 1/4 in. 58.4 x 38.6 cm sheet: 26 x 18 1/8 in. 66.1 x 45.9 cm

Classification Posters

Department Prints, Drawings & Photographs

Credit Collection of the Detroit Institute of Arts

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 1989.153

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Signed In plate, lower center of image: BIRD

Inscriptions In plate, upper center of image: THE RED / LETTER; lower left: LITHOGRAPHED BY; lower right: FORBES CO. BOSTON.

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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 10.

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Elisha Brown Bird, The Red Letter, 1896, Commercial lithograph printed in color. Detroit Institute of Arts, Collection of the Detroit Institute of Arts, 1989.153.

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