Century (U.S.A.) / 1907
Corporate background:
One of several produced by Leeds &
Catlin, a New York-based company, in contravention of
Victor/Columbia’s patent rights.
Imperial was
another of their anonymous productions.
Label scan courtesy of Alec Flexer of
Montreal.
Design: The
composition, with its emphasis on grace and beauty, reveals the
influence of the Pre-Raphaelite movement in fine art in England
during the late 19th century.
Painters of this school idealized the
classical themes of the early Renaissance.
A trinity of haloes (as in a church
stained-glass window) appear round the heads of the saintly
young ladies who are playing their twin-fluted pipes of Pan.