Poster and book-cover design in The Modern Poster (1895)
E. Potthast
A performer balances on a dark horse beneath the descending lines of the circus’s name and slogan. The raised arm and the horse’s movement establish a strong diagonal through the narrow sheet. The caption names E. Potthast and the Strobridge Lithograph Company, preserving both the drawing credit and the production connection.
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In the sources
The printed credit
DocumentedThe Modern Poster credits Potthast with a Barnum & Bailey circus advertisement.
The design on the page
InterpretationA performer balances on a dark horse beneath the descending lines of the circus’s name and slogan.
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 E. PotthastOpen 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-P0026
- Original scan leaf
- 26
- Recorded leaf number
- 26
- Current Reader position
- 10
- 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-P0100
- Original scan leaf
- 100
- Recorded leaf number
- 100
- Current Reader position
- 80
- Reader verification
- Matches the reviewed Reader
Illustrations
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