Bicycles
by Francisco Tamagno
Terrot
1898 Young lady cycles to the top of a hill way ahead of the competition.Attitude is everything in the several Terrot bicycle posters Tamagno created at the turn of the century. In all of them a young lady makes it to the top of a hill way ahead of the competition, effortlessly outdistances an airplane, beats a locomotive coming on at full speed and, as seen here, keeps pace with a male companion atop a Terrot motorbike - although she appears to have taken some sort of shortcut through the underbrush. Her gentleman friend is the picture of good sportsmanship as he outpaces the other riders, but this feisty female, as is always the case in a Tamagno Terrot poster, doesnt neglect to let the competition know in no uncertain - if not precisely ladylike - terms whos the champ.