Lithograph Engraving Set Charles Dana Gibson Advertising Pos...

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Lithograph Engraving Set Charles Dana Gibson Advertising Poster The Illustrated London News Hindenburg Keats Pageant Of Guns. Set of seven lithograph illustrated pages from books and magazines. Six double-sided pages featuring drawings by an American illustrator, Charles Dana Gibson (1867-1944): 1.Studies in Expression In The Monkey House. Copyright, 1904, by Life Publishing Co., New York. The reverse features a drawing titled Race Suicide, a term popularised by President Theodore Roosevelt, commenting on the social trend of declining birth rates, particularly among white, middle-class Americans.Copyright, 1903, by Collier's Weekly, New York. Fair condition, creasing, tears, staining, paper losses and skimming on edge, double sided. Country of issue: USA, designer: Charles Dana Gibson, size (cm): 28.5x44, year of printing: 1900s. 2. Gibson Girls, the personification of the feminine ideal of physical attractiveness. The reverse features a drawing titled Sister's New Beau, depicting a gentleman in a chair with a child sitting on his lap and children around them. Copyright, 1904, by Life Publishing Co., New York. Fair condition, creasing, tears, staining, paper losses and skimming on edge, double sided. Country of issue: USA, designer: Charles Dana Gibson, size (cm): 28.5x44, year of printing: 1905; 3.To See The Editor, depicting a group of people seated and standing waiting to meet the art department editor. Copyright, 1905, by Charles Scribner's Sons, New York. The reverse features a drawing titled Opening of the Racing Season, depicting a group of gentlemen portraying various moods, from disappointment to stress, intrigued and ecstatic. Copyright, 1905, by Collier's Weekly, New York. Fair condition, creasing, tears, staining, paper losses and skimming on edge, double sided. Country of issue: USA, designer: Charles Dana Gibson, size (cm): 28.5x44, year of printing: 1905; 4. Proud Merchant, depicting a group of people looking at a proud gentleman standing in the door being photographed by a photographer. The reverse features a drawing titled Her Summer Friends, depicting a Gibson Girl, under a tree in a field with cows, horses, sheep, pigs and ducks near her. Copyright, 1904, by Collier's Weekly, New York. Horizontal. Fair condition, creasing, tears, staining, paper losses and skimming on edge, double sided. Country of issue: USA, designer: Charles Dana Gibson, size (cm): 28.5x44, year of printing: 1904; 5. Waiting For Something To Turn Up (Scene in any hotel corridor), depicting a group of bored-looking gentlemen, smoking, sitting hands in their pockets, reading a newspaper or napping. Copyright, 1905, by Collier's Weekly, New York. The reverse features a drawing Grandfather: Say, Willie, don't you want to go through a toy shop with me this afternoon and see all the pretty things? I'm willing to, pop, if you will get any pleasure out of it. Copyright, 1905, by Life Publishing Co., New York. Horizontal. Fair condition, creasing, tears, staining, paper losses and skimming on edge, double sided. Country of issue: USA, designer: Charles Dana Gibson, size (cm): 28.5x44, year of printing: 1905; 6. The New Hat, Copyright, 1905, by Life Publishing Co., New York. The reverse features a drawing titled Fanned Out, depicting three gentlemen, depicting various emotions, including anger ande despair. Copyright, 1905, by Colliers Weekly, New York. Horizontal. Fair condition, creasing, tears, staining, paper losses and skimming on edge, double sided. Country of issue: USA, designer: Charles Dana Gibson, size (cm): 28.5x44, year of printing: 1905. 7. Original vintage page from The Illustrated London News magazine, May 9 1925-911 issue, featuring articles - The German President as Grandfather: A Domestic Idol, on Paul von Hindenburg (1847-1934), a German military officer and statesman who led the Imperial German Army during World War I and later became President of Germany from 1925 until he died in 1934, seen pictured with his grandchildren, his home in Hanover guarded by armed police; At Home and Abroad: New Photographs of Topical Interest, covering a German railway disaster in the "Polish corridor" between East Prussia and Germany; Museum of John Keats Relics in Hampstead; broadcasting of massed bands at York; sale of John Hoppner's (1758-1810) portrait of Lady Elizabeth Bligh; a model of a Lyons Tea van; Prince Henry signing the Burgess Roll at the ceremony in St. Andrew's Hall. The reverse features an illustrated article titled To Compare With The Royal Tournament 'Pageant of Guns': Artillery of Six Centuries 1.-Field Guns. Founded by Herbert Ingram and first published in 1842, The Illustrated London News was the world's first illustrated weekly news magazine. Horizontal. Good condition, creasing, tears, staining, staple holes, folded as issued. Country of issue: UK, designer: photographs by Keystone View Co., C.N., Topical, Sport and General, and L.B., illustrations by A. Forestier, size (cm): 39x26cm(folded) 39x52cm(unfolded), year of printing: 1925.

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