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I used a Nikkor-O.C 35mm f/2 lens to make this close-up photograph of part of a calendar. The calendar manufacturers had reproduced a poster for 'The Penny Magazine' of circa 1896. That poster had been printed from a lithograph which was the work of Ethel Reed, an American graphic artist who lived from 1874 to 1912. The poster in question belongs now to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, although it is not permanently on display.
Ethel Reed's relatively short life ended through drink and drugs after disappointment that she could not find paid work. If you look up her poster advertising 'The Quest of the Golden Girl' you might be puzzled as to why she was not even more successful.