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Original Art from the Grand Age of American Illustration

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Victorian Moon

Artist:Charles Howard Johnson
Date:1893
Medium:Watercolor on Board
Dimensions:Framed 26" x 30"
Condition:Excellent
Original Use:Illustration for Truth magazine
Price: Sold
Close up view.
Full view of watercolor
Detail of close up view.
Detail of couple in gondola
Close up of artist's signature and date.
Detail of artist’s signature and date

A large, Victorian-era original watercolor on illustration board by frequent LIFE magazine illustrator Charles Howard Johnson. This was most likely an interior, 2-page color plate illustration for Truth magazine.

A stylized Belle Époque, old world gondola scene. Nicely framed in a large, period, gesso wood frame.

Full framed view, with period style frame.
Framed in period gesso frame
Close up view of detailed period frame.
Detail of frame

Victorian Moon

Artist: Charles Howard Johnson
Price:  Sold

 

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