Adolfo Hohenstein – Les Maîtres de l’Affiche : Centenaire de la découverte de la pile voltaïque, Côme, 1898

By HOHENSTEIN Adolfo (1854-1928)

Adolfo HOHENSTEIN (1854–1928)
Centenaire de la découverte de la pile voltaïque, Côme, 1898 — from Les Maîtres de l’Affiche, PL. 160
Lithograph in colours on wove paper, printed by Imprimerie Chaix, Paris
Signed and dated ’98 in the stone lower left; “PL. 160” and Imprimerie Chaix credit printed in the lower left margin; Les Maîtres de l’Affiche blindstamp in the lower right margin
Dimensions:
Sheet: 39 × 29 cm (15.4 × 11.4 in.)
Image: 33.3 × 16 cm (13.1 × 6.3 in.)
Condition:
Good condition; light toning and a few small spots in the margins. Unframed.
References: Stanley Appelbaum, The Complete “Masters of the Poster”, Dover, 1990, pl. 160
Period: plate published 1899
Plate 160 of Les Maîtres de l’Affiche (1895–1900), the monthly series of reduced-format posters published under Jules Chéret’s direction by Imprimerie Chaix. Hohenstein, the leading poster artist of the Ricordi house in Milan, designed this poster for the Como exhibition of 1899 marking the centenary of Volta’s battery.
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