{"product_id":"paris-toulouse-1900-mors-ernest-montaut","title":"Paris-Toulouse 1900, Mors - Ernest Montaut","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eParis-Toulouse 1900, Mors\u003c\/strong\u003e - a hand-coloured plate by Ernest Montaut from his album of the great motor races of 1895 to 1907.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eParis-Toulouse, 1900. Levegh, driving the Mors racing car in a race held during the Exposition Universelle, finished first, covering 1,348 km in 20 hours 50 minutes, an average of 64.7 km an hour.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMors was a Paris electrical engineering firm that turned to motor cars in the 1890s, and its racing cars took the great town-to-town races between 1900 and 1903.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eErnest Montaut (1878-1909) more or less invented the motor-racing print. Working in Paris in the first decade of the century, he drew the cars at full stretch, raked forward, with the road streaming away behind them and dust boiling off the wheels - a way of showing speed that motoring artists have borrowed ever since.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis plate comes from Montaut's album \"10 ans de courses: les marques victorieuses 1897-1907\" - ten years of racing and the marques that won it. Each plate records one victory from the great town-to-town races and Gordon Bennett contests, with the result printed on the tissue guard laid over it, and the plates were coloured by hand.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePrepared from a high-resolution scan of the original hand-coloured plate, trimmed to the image and a margin of its own sheet. Printed to order on cotton-fibre archival paper at one size, with a wide mount cut so the border is even on all four sides, and framed by hand in our own workshop.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Vintage Car Museum","offers":[{"title":"18cm x 38cm","offer_id":55491824320853,"sku":"MONTAUT020-M-38X18","price":29.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0886\/6414\/6261\/files\/gallery-0_65bf3775-0d11-490f-85eb-924e77664f11.jpg?v=1792767648","url":"https:\/\/theposteredit.com\/en-us\/products\/paris-toulouse-1900-mors-ernest-montaut","provider":"The Poster Edit","version":"1.0","type":"link"}