Cycles Humber Lithograph
$140.00
Small-scale lithographed poster for Humber & Company Cycles, designed by French artist Alfred Choubrac (1853-1902). It depicts a rather ecstatic young woman riding a Humber “safety” bicycle, in a very impractical yellow dress.
Imprimerie Chaix was an art press which offered its subscribers reduced-sized versions of the best posters of the fin-de-siècle period. 64 of these lithographic prints were collected into a book: Les Affiches Illustrees, published in 1896. Only about 1000 copies were printed, so the images are quite rare.
To be clear: this print, though reduced in size from the original poster, is an actual stone lithograph from 1896.
8 7/8” x 11 1/2” (22.5 cm x 29.2 cm)