Poster and book-cover design in The Modern Poster (1895)
Adolphe Willette
Small theatrical figures gather in a crowded horizontal band above a singer and a musician. Large dark fields hold the figures and the book’s title together. The design gives a collection of songs the character of a performance, with its cast arranged as a compact illustrated stage.
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In the sources
The printed credit
DocumentedWillette’s cover for Paul Delmet’s Nouvelles Chansons appears among the book’s French designs.
The design on the page
InterpretationSmall theatrical figures gather in a crowded horizontal band above a singer and a musician.
Context & interpretation
The credited designs reproduced in the cited edition of The Modern Poster. This entry concerns the work shown in that collection.
Original passages
Source 1
The Modern Poster
By A. WilletteOpen this page in the book
Passage & edition details
Location recorded at citation review: List of illustrations
Printed credit individually checked against the exact original page image. Line breaks normalised.
- Edition
- IMJ-0570-E001
- Reader page
- IMJ-0570-E001-P0023
- Original scan leaf
- 23
- Recorded leaf number
- 23
- Current Reader position
- 7
- Reader verification
- Matches the reviewed Reader
Source 2
The Modern Poster
Open this page in the bookPassage & edition details
Location recorded at citation review: Illustrated design
Original illustrated page and faithful Gallery crop individually checked against the exact active edition. This source is an image; no quotation is supplied.
- Edition
- IMJ-0570-E001
- Reader page
- IMJ-0570-E001-P0044
- Original scan leaf
- 44
- Recorded leaf number
- 44
- Current Reader position
- 26
- Reader verification
- Matches the reviewed Reader
Illustrations
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Shared source pageWill H. Bradley
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