Harvard Football Lithograph

[CarltonHendricks]

Charles Howard Johnson (1868 - July 3, 1896) was a nineteenth-century American illustrator and newspaper artist. He is best known for his sparse illustrations of the 1890 U.S. edition of The princess by the English poet Alfred Lord Tennyson.

Very little is known of Johnson's life. He was reportedly born in Kansas City, and came to New York in about 1889 after studying art for a year in Cincinnati, Ohio. He worked for a number of magazines including Life, Truth, Munsey's Magazine, and on some of the daily newspapers. He illustrated over ten books.

He was particularly effective in decorative work, often making the pictures fantastical.

He was engaged to be married to the actress Elita Proctor Otis, before he died at his apartment in the Union Square Hotel of brain fever on July 3 1896, after an illness of ten days. His wife had died two years earlier, with whom he had a daughter -Wiki

Concur with Mike and Keith...it's a satirical piece...from the line down the center you can tell it was removed from a periodical...likely hand colored as opposed to being a chromolithograph..."Art supplements" which were unbound prints given out loose as freebie promotional items by newspapers and maybe magazines...were often chromolithos...where as color prints like this that have been removed are usually hand colored...I don't recall seeing the image before so I think it's rare...

[ctownboy]

I knew there was a set produced but I couldn't remember by what company or when so I looked it up.

Duke Cigarettes released the N31 set in 1888 called World's Dudes.

David

[frankbmd]

I played against Vassar from 1965-1969 and lost. Boola-Boola!!!!!

[1880nonsports]

There's a fantastic 1880's Allen & Ginter insert set of 50 cards titled "World's Dudes" (N31) and showing dudes from around the world. If interested featured on net54 non-sports (gasp) in our gallery. My cousin was in the first male class to go to vassar. Back then he always seemed to be smiling.

[ColgateFootball]

Thanks for the info, folks!