DINNER To HIS EXCELLENCY GEORGE HARVEY Ambassador of the United States to the Court of St. James; By the Lotos Club New York April 30th 1921

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Broadside, with a 'plate' impression applied. Image of Harvey, with credits & accomplishments listed underneath. Graphics by T. Sindelar [signed in the plate]. 17-3/8" x 12-3/8" "George Brinton McClellan Harvey was an American diplomat, journalist, author, street railway magnate, and editor of several magazines. He used his great wealth in politics, serving as the American Ambassador to Great Britain from May 12, 1921Ââ " November 3, 1923." "The Lotos Club was founded in 1870 as a gentlemen's club in New York City; it has since also admitted women as members. Its founders were primarily a young group of writers and critics. Mark Twain, an early member, called it the 'Ace of Clubs'. The Club took its name from the poem 'The Lotos-Eaters' by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, which was then very popular. Lotos was thought to convey an idea of rest and harmony. . The Lotos Club has always had a literary and artistic bent, with the result that it has accumulated a noted collection of American paintings. Its 'State Dinners' are legendary fetes for scholars, artists and sculptors, collectors and connoisseurs, writers and journalists, and politicians and diplomats. Elaborate souvenir menus are produced for these dinners." [Wiki] Sindelar a Cleveland Ohio native, who, it is believed, moved to NYC in the mid-1890s, becoming a life-long member of the Lotos Club. He is said to have studied art with Alphonse Mucha, Paris. And here offered is one of these Sindelar-designed souvenir dinner menus printed for the fete honoring Ambassador Harvey, occasioned, no doubt, to celebrate his appointment. Some general extremity wear & bit of soiling to margins. Vertical age-toning band in right margin. Overall, Very Good. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. N° de ref. del artículo 48878

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