1893 Chicago Worlds Fair French Sculpture Art Palace - ORIGINAL HISTORIC FAI4

"French Sculpture in the Art Palace." This is an original 1893 halftone print of French sculpture in the Art Palace at the 1893 Chicago Worlds Fair. Some of the art included Bartholdi's bronze group of Washington and Lafayette; Massoulle's "Ancestor"; Lami's "First Transgression" ; and Choppin's bronze statue of a "Volunteer of 1776." (Please note that, typical of halftone prints, there is printing on the reverse.) Period Paper has obtained a wonderful set of halftone prints of the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, also known as the World Columbian Exposition. This original collection of the fair's many architectural, artistic, mechanical, agricultural, industrial, archeological, ethnological, historical, and scenic attractions was printed in 1893. The World Columbian Exposition was held from May to October 1893 in Chicago in honor of the 400th anniversary of Columbus' discovery of the new world. In competition with many other cities, Chicago was finally designated the official site an