![Onoranze A Volta Nel Centenario Della Pila Como 1899 Maggio-Ottobre Esposizione Internazionale di Elettricita [Honor to Volta on the Centenary of the Battery Como May-October 1899 International Exposition of Electricity]](http://wolfsonian.org/sites/default/files/object/86.4.25.JPG?1320806813 "Onoranze A Volta Nel Centenario Della Pila Como 1899 Maggio-Ottobre Esposizione Internazionale di Elettricita [Honor to Volta on the Centenary of the Battery Como May-October 1899 International Exposition of Electricity]")
- Title : Onoranze A Volta Nel Centenario Della Pila Como 1899 Maggio-Ottobre Esposizione Internazionale di Elettricita [Honor to Volta on the Centenary of the Battery Como May-October 1899 International Exposition of Electricity]
- Artist: Adolfo Hohenstein Designer G. Ricordi & Co. Publisher
- Accession: 86.4.25
- Country: Italy Milan
- Date: 1898
- Dimensions: Inches 43 20-3/8, Centimeters 109.2 51.8
- Collection: Object
- Category: Posters and Printed Ephemera
- Collection Theme: World's Fairs and Expositions
- Subject: World's Fairs and Expositions , Lighting/Lighting Design , Technology , Commemoration
- Credit Line: The Wolfsonian–Florida International University, Miami Beach, Florida, The Mitchell Wolfson, Jr. Collection
- URL: 86.4.25.JPG
- Tags: Art Nouveau~Stile Florale, Italian Art Nouveau~World's Fairs and Expositions~Industrial Design~Posters and Printed Ephemera
Description:
Ink on paper color lithograph commemorating the 100th anniversary of Volta's creation of the battery and an International Exposition of Electricity; image depicts two female figures, one seated at a loom wearing red and the other standing wearing green holding a bolt of blue cloth in her arms set against electrical poles and a stylized cityscape in the background; bottom half depicts an image of Volta, Italian scientist who invented the first battery in 1799; Italian inscriptions framed with leaves at bottom.