[Print]: Every Cloud Has It's Silver Lining. Nil Desperandum [Do Not Despair]

GOURGUET, A.F.M.

Verlag: Stern, Graveur, Paris, 1912

Beschreibung

Relief duotone print, approximately 9" x 13" and is tipped onto a slightly larger mount. Housed in original envelope with unprinted card stiffener. Fine. The print depicts Teddy Roosevelt and William Howard Taft in a serious tussle, while below them William Jennings Bryan is seen riding an ass, and around them are other symbolic figures (i.e. a farmer and a businessman shaking hands). Above the fray is a hand holding a balance over a globe showing the U.S. and above that is a watchful American eagle. In the lower left-hand corner, attached by a small brass clip is an engraved card with the text: "Women's Convention, 142 5th Av. New York August 13-24" and an illustration showing a variety of women's hats being "thrown into the ring." The print is housed in a large original envelope from milliner Wurzberger & Hecht, who specialized in ladies' plumed hats, and whose address is identical to the address of the aforementioned "Women's Convention." The owner Adolph Wurzburger's daughter, Julie Wurzburger Neumann, was at school at the time in order to earn a teaching degree, and in the 1914-15 edition of *Who's Who in American Women* (p.594) notes that she was "Actively engaged in religious, social and philanthropic work of the Brooklyn Soc. of Ethic'l Culture. Favors woman suffrage." Printed by Stein, Paris's finest engraver, and illustrated by the fashion artist Auguste-Francois-Marie Gourget, who seems to have illustrated hats for the Paris fashion house of Jeanne Laurant, the logical conclusion is that Wurzburger and his suffrage-minded daughter commissioned the illustration to show support for Roosevelt and his Progressive Party and their pledge to support the right to vote for women. Or maybe they were just trying to sell hats. At any rate, interesting and evocative images of the struggle for woman suffrage. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 426045

Bibliografische Details

Titel: [Print]: Every Cloud Has It's Silver Lining....

Verlag: Stern, Graveur, Paris

Erscheinungsdatum: 1912

Einband: Softcover

Zustand: Fine

Auflage: 1. Auflage