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Prepared from the source scan: surroundings removed and the sheet levelled where required. The source record remains available below.
The WPA & the Golden Age · The American Golden Age
Harper's Weekly, Bicycle Number (Parrish, 1896)
Maxfield Parrish · Harper's Weekly, 1896
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 print in poster format by Maxfield Parrish announcing the bicycle number of Harper's Weekly, sheet 41 x 58 cm, dated 1896 by the Library of Congress.
Why it matters
The magazines ran special bicycle issues at the height of the craze and commissioned posters to sell them at the newsstand.
What to notice
Wider than it is tall, made for the newsstand rack.
The bicycle sold itself as freedom, and the poster sold the bicycle.
Provenance
- School
- The American Golden Age — the Poster before 1931 (United States)
- Designer
- Maxfield Parrish
- Format
- Advertising poster
- Poster published
- Harper's Weekly, 1896
- Source
- Library of Congress · LCCN 2015646421
Live trademark
Harper's — sold here as history, never adopted into this house’s own branding.
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. Maxfield Parrish died in 1966. The poster was published in 1896 and is public domain in the United States; the Commons file carries {{PD-old-70-1923}}. Under terms of seventy years from death (EU, UK) the design stays protected until 1 January 2037. Sell in the US; review before any EU or UK fulfilment. Maxfield Parrish died in 1966, so the work stays in copyright in life-plus-70 countries until 1 January 2037. Public domain in the US by publication before 1931; look before any EU or UK order. The Commons master is a 9440x6620 TIFF; the catalogue hangs its JPEG rendition, which is what is measured and printed.
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