Free to Serve: A Tale of Colonial New York

Designer Maxfield Parrish American

Publisher Copeland and Day American

Printer G. H. Walker & Co. Lithography American

1897

Not on view

Artwork Details

Title: Free to Serve: A Tale of Colonial New York
Designer: Maxfield Parrish (American, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1870–1966 Plainfield, New Hampshire)
Publisher: Copeland and Day
Printer: G. H. Walker & Co. Lithography
Date: 1897
Medium: Color lithograph
Dimensions: Sheet: 18 3/8 × 12 9/16 in. (46.7 × 31.9 cm)
Classification: Prints
Credit Line: Leonard A. Lauder Collection of American Posters, Gift of Leonard A. Lauder, 1984
Object Number: 1984.1202.68
Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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