Large Boston Public Garden Sketchbook: Design for a bicycle poster, 1895?97, Recto: watercolor over pencil, bordered in pencil and watercolor; verso: pencil, 14 1/8 x 11 3/16 in. (35. 8 x 28. 4 cm), Drawings, Maurice Brazil Prendergast (American, St. John?s, Newfoundland 1858?1924 New York), This drawing was probably an idea for a competition held by the Pope Manufacturing Company of Hartford, Connecticut, in 1896 for a poster advertising their Columbia bicycle. Essentially a poster within a poster, the advertisement would seem to suggest that the festooned pedestrian ought to exchange her restrictive skirts and boa for the more liberated fashions associated with the new fad of bicycling