Poster and book-cover design in The Modern Poster (1895)
Dudley Hardy
The figure spreads her arms beneath the large, tilting title, while the lower half of the design supplies the price and publication details. Loose lines and emphatic lettering give the announcement a playful rhythm. The printed caption credits Hardy and acknowledges the publishers David Allen & Sons.
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In the sources
The printed credit
DocumentedHardy’s To-Day poster turns a lightly drawn figure into an energetic magazine announcement.
The design on the page
InterpretationThe figure spreads her arms beneath the large, tilting title, while the lower half of the design supplies the price and publication details.
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 Dudley HardyOpen 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-P0025
- Original scan leaf
- 25
- Recorded leaf number
- 25
- Current Reader position
- 9
- 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-P0091
- Original scan leaf
- 91
- Recorded leaf number
- 91
- Current Reader position
- 72
- Reader verification
- Matches the reviewed Reader
Illustrations
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