St. Nicholas / August, the Midsummer Number
Date1896
Artist
Theodore Michael Hampe
American illustrator, 1877–1965
Printer/Printmaker
G. H. Buek & Co., Lithographers
New York printing firm, began 1881
Illustration CitationAdvertising poster for St. Nicholas, August 1896
MediumCommercial lithograph
Dimensionssheet: 20 15/16 × 14 1/2 in. (53.2 × 36.8 cm)
Credit LineGift of Mrs. J. Marshall Cole, 1973
Object number1973-45
On View
Not on viewClassificationsPRINT
Label TextThis is the only known printed poster Hampe produced. His entry in The Century poster contest of 1897 earned an honorable mention, but neither an image nor a description of it survives.
