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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
Waverley Cycles (Mucha, 1898)
Alphonse Mucha · Waverley cycles, 1898
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 Alphonse Mucha for Waverley cycles, dated 1898 and printed by F. Champenois, 66 boulevard Saint-Michel, Paris. Rennert and Weill catalogue it as no. 52.
Why it matters
Champenois held Mucha under contract and placed him on commercial work of every kind, the bicycle among it.
What to notice
A horizontal Mucha: the sheet runs wide to carry the machine.
The bicycle sold itself as freedom, and the poster sold the bicycle.
Provenance
- School
- Belle Époque — the Affiche (France)
- Designer
- Alphonse Mucha
- Printer / house
- F. Champenois, 66 boulevard Saint-Michel, Paris
- Format
- Advertising poster
- Poster published
- Waverley cycles, 1898
- Source
- Bibliothèque nationale de France (Gallica) · BnF btv1b9016321n
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.
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