Life cover — February 17, 1897
$19.00
An original cover of Life cover, dated February 17, 1897. Restored from the Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division scan. Public-domain in the United States.
Description
Life cover — February 17, 1897
At a glance
- Real dated magazine cover from February 17, 1897
- Restored from a Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division public-domain scan
- Six high-resolution JPGs at 300 DPI
- Three frame sizes: 8×10, 11×14, 16×20 inches
- Two finishes included: Pure and Heirloom
- One-page printing reference PDF included
Source & publication note
Life was launched as a weekly humor and general-interest magazine in New York City on January 4, 1883, founded by John Ames Mitchell and Andrew Miller. It quickly built a roster of celebrated illustrators: Charles Dana Gibson sold his first drawing to the magazine in 1886 and became one of its defining artists, and Norman Rockwell painted his first Life cover on May 10, 1917, contributing twenty-eight covers between 1917 and 1924. Other contributors included Coles Phillips, F. X. Leyendecker, Palmer Cox, and a young Robert Ripley. After founder Mitchell’s death in 1918, Gibson himself purchased the title in 1920. The magazine remained a weekly through the Jazz Age, shifted to a monthly during the Great Depression, and published its last issue in November 1936, when Henry Luce bought the name to launch his picture magazine.
Source: Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division. This work is in the public domain in the United States.
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