St. Nicholas, Christmas Number
St. Nicholas, Christmas Number
Date1896
Illustration CitationPoster advertising St. Nicholas Christmas Number, Decemer 1896. The Century Company, G. H. Buek & Cop., N.Y
MediumColor lithograph
Dimensionssheet: 21 1/2 × 16 1/4 in. (54.6 × 41.3 cm)
Credit LineAnonymous gift, 2023
Object number2023-44
Label TextWhile this poster is unsigned, the organizers of the International Advertisers' Exhibition in London in 1900 list this poster in their catalogue as being designed by American illustrators Maud Humphrey and F. Berkeley Smith, and this identification is republished in the London magazine, The Poster: An Illustrated Monthly Chronicle, that year. Humphrey was illustrating for St. Nicholas around this time.Theodore Michael Hampe
1896
Felix Octavius Carr Darley
1862
Frank Xavier Leyendecker
1903
