Wonderful detailed illustration by Harrison Fisher - excellent like all his work...
From the December 1903 issue of McClure's magazine
This is the actual magazine page - not a copy -- see the photos attached with my notes written along illustration edges before matting
Mat was custom-cut and is new
The illustration was mounted on a piece of white 1/8" foam board before matting
Finished mat size is a standard 11" x 14"
Art size is 5 1/2" x 7 3/4"
I'll place the matted print inside a plastic sleeve and add another piece of foam board for protection
Mailing will be by USPS First Class in a bubble envelope. I'll mail same day, or next day after PayPal payment is received
Some info on this very famous illustrator:
"The Father of A Thousand Girls", HARRISON FISHER (1875-1934) showed an early interest in drawing and from the age of six was instructed by his father, Hugh Antoine Fisher, a landscape painter. When his family moved from Brooklyn to San Francisco, Harrison studied there at the Mark Hopkins Institute of Art. At sixteen, Fisher had begun to make drawings for the San Francisco Call and later for the Examiner.
Soon after returning to New York, Fisher sold two sketches to Puck Magazine which also hired him as a staff artist. He became noted for his ability to draw beautiful women, and his Fisher Girls became rivals to those of Gibson and Christy. The American Girl was a favorite theme for the magazine then, and Fisher did cover illustrations for most of them. For many years he was under an exclusive contract to do covers for Cosmopolitan, but eventually he restricted himself to painting portraits including many actresses and theatrical personalities.