Life, 1907-08-22 · page 22 of 24
Life — August 22, 1907 — page 22: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This is not a satirical cartoon page but rather an **advertisement** for Life Publishing Company's art print catalog. The page showcases reproducible prints available for home purchase—a common early-20th-century practice when quality art reproductions were luxury goods. The prints feature romantic and sentimental imagery typical of the era: "Her Choice" (a woman on a divan), "Moonstruck" (an ethereal figure), "The Choir Invisible" (a religious scene), and "The Cup That Clears" (two figures at tea). Artists credited include Henry Hutt and Coles Phillips, popular illustrators of that period. The Ruskin epigraph positioning art as essential to domestic life reflects Victorian/Edwardian aesthetics. Prices ($1-$2) indicate these were affordable middle-class decorations, available in various printing techniques (photogravure, India print). This represents commercial art democratization before mass-produced home décor became ubiquitous.
📄 Transcribed text from this page (OCR, searchable)
Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.
“A room without pictures is bike a room without windows." —RUSKIN Life’s Prints Copyrghs UT by Life Pod. Co THE CUP THAT CLEARS TO-DAY OF PAST REGRETS AND YUTURE PEARS Alter C. Coles Phillips Omar India Print, 22 by 18 in. $2.00 Copyrighe 1041 by Lite PO Ca, A LEE SHORE FLW, Read FORTY DAYS. Alter Will Foster Photogravure in Brown, 15 by 20 in. 1.00 MOONSTRUCK Ajter Henry Hutt Photogeavure in Brown, 20 by 13 in. $1.00 PROM THE DEPTHS j Z Alter W. Baljour Ker ‘ z = i} India Print in Groen, 18 by 22 in | Pee Daeg é $2.00 | THE CHOIR INVISIBLE HELLO, OLD MAN. ANY TROUBLE? Alter C. Clyde Squires 4 M. Flage T Photogravure in Brown, 20 by 15 in. " Black, 15 by 20 in, $1.00 50 cents sh LIFE PUBLISHING COMPANY, 17 West 31st Street, New York sat comicbooks.com