£40
Advertising Poster Mathieu de la Drome Almanac Weather Forecast. Original antique advertising poster for 1897 Almanac by Mathieu de la Drome featuring an illustration of a French politician and scholar Antoine Philippe Mathieu known as Mathieu de la Drome (1808-1865) statue in the centre with a winged lady holding a wreath over his head and a pipe in the other, a hot air balloon in the sky over a ship at the sea, farmers working in the field, people braving wind and rain. Drome published the first issue of Almanac in 1863, predicting the weather by the lunar phases, the Almanacs were issued continuously from 1863 to 1939. Printed by Typographie de E. Plon, Paris. Horizontal. Good condition, tears, creasing, staining, folds. Country of issue: France, designer: Unknown, size (cm): 30x40, year of printing: 1897
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