Opening The Atlas
The next picture is on its way.
Prepared from the source scan: surroundings removed and the sheet levelled where required. The source record remains available below.
Le Grand Siècle de l’Affiche · The Velocipede
American Crescent Cycles (Ramsdell, 1899)
Frederick Winthrop Ramsdell · American Crescent cycles, 1899
Format
Archival pigment giclée on museum-grade matte art paper, color-managed to the source scan — the flat inks and stone grain intact. The 40×60 is the room-changer.
Size
$39.00
What it is
A colour lithograph by Frederick Winthrop Ramsdell for American Crescent cycles, dated 1899 and printed at Chaix (ateliers Chéret) in Paris.
Why it matters
The Crescent was an American bicycle sold in Europe, and its French poster came off the presses Chéret ran.
What to notice
The printer's line credits the Chéret workshop, the house that set the Paris poster style.
The bicycle sold itself as freedom, and the poster sold the bicycle.
Provenance
- School
- Belle Époque — the Affiche (France)
- Designer
- Frederick Winthrop Ramsdell
- Printer / house
- Imprimerie Chaix (Ateliers Chéret), Paris
- Format
- Advertising poster
- Poster published
- American Crescent cycles, 1899
- Source
- Bibliothèque nationale de France (Gallica) · BnF btv1b9012402d
Rights: CLEAR. Public domain — U.S. 95-year rule (published 1930 or earlier). Gated by the poster’s own publication year. Cleared by registry on 2026-11-01.
More from the Atlas
Painted Whiskers, our sister studio, will paint your pet in this school’s hand, after Tournée du Chat Noir. See Yours Painted ↗