The Sunday World: April 5th

Art Historical Context

Step into the bustling newsrooms of Gilded Age New York with *The Sunday World: April5th*, a vibrant color printed letterpress from the iconic *New York World* newspaper. Created anonymously by American artists in 1896, this 19 3/16 × 12 1/16 in. sheet captures the era's sensational journalism, where Sunday editions drew crowds with bold illustrations and eye-catching designs. As part of the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Drawings and Prints collection, it early mass-produced graphic art. The medium—color letterpress—marks a technological leap in the 1890s, blending relief printing with multi-c...