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Free to Serve: A Tale of Colonial New York

Designer Maxfield Parrish American
Publisher Copeland and Day American
1897
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Artwork Details

Object Information
  • 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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