The Century for April, Napoleon's Campaign in Italy

The Century for April, Napoleon's Campaign in Italy
The Century for April, Napoleon's Campaign in Italy

The Century for April, Napoleon's Campaign in Italy

Date1895
Artist (American painter, illustrator, and engraver, 1859–1950)
Illustration CitationAdvertising poster for The Century, April 1895
MediumCommercial lithograph
Dimensionscomposition: 15 3/4 × 11 5/16 in. (40 × 28.7 cm)
sheet: 17 1/2 × 12 1/8 in. (44.5 × 30.8 cm)
Credit LineGift of Helen Farr Sloan, 1977
Object number1977-281
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ClassificationsPRINT
Label TextThis poster notes the ongoing series on the life of Napoleon by William Sloane, a professor of history at Princeton University. The woman in yellow appears to be a personifcation of Spring, watering the April flowers.

Connecticut native George Wharton Edwards was a painter, illustrator, writer, and lithographic artist. After his studies in Antwerp and Paris, he gained recognition in the 1890s, expecially for the Art Nouveau style of his posters.


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