Large Boston Public Garden Sketchbook: Design for a bicycle poster
Maurice Brazil Prendergast American
Not on view
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.
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