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Invitation for Pickwick Dress Co.

Illustrated by: Robert Polack
Printed by: Georges Gotscho
about 1926

Medium/Technique Planographic print with pochoir (color stencil)
Dimensions Length x width: 15.2 x 12.1 cm (6 x 4 3/4 in.)
Credit Line Gift of Susan B. Kaplan
Accession Number2016.142
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsFashion illustration

DescriptionFolded card with design on front. Inside text reads: "I am returning on S.S. Majestic with many clever creations for our early Spring showing from the best known couturiers of Paris. The originals and our copies will be on display in our showroom on December 7th. Your early inspection is invited. Respectfully yours, L.A. Chaikin Pickwick Dress Co. Inc."
Provenance2015, sold by J.M. Cohen, Rare Books, New Paltz, NY, to Susan B. Kaplan, Brookline, MA; 2016, gift of Susan B. Kaplan to the MFA. (Accession Date: April 27, 2016)