Poster and book-cover design in The Modern Poster (1895)
Edward Penfield
The figure turns beside a sheet of reading matter, while the letters of March descend along the left edge. A broad hat, a high collar and the curved outline of the clothing carry much of the image. The book reproduces the design in its discussion of American posters and credits Penfield beneath it.
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In the sources
The printed credit
DocumentedPenfield’s Harper’s for March design joins a fashionable figure with the magazine’s name and month.
The design on the page
InterpretationThe figure turns beside a sheet of reading matter, while the letters of March descend along the left edge.
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 Edward PenfieldOpen 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-P0027
- Original scan leaf
- 27
- Recorded leaf number
- 27
- Current Reader position
- 11
- 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-P0125
- Original scan leaf
- 125
- Recorded leaf number
- 125
- Current Reader position
- 105
- Reader verification
- Matches the reviewed Reader
Illustrations
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