Poster and book-cover design in The Modern Poster (1895)
Fred Walker
A white-robed woman steps through an open doorway beneath a dark field of stars. The light figure fills most of the narrow composition, with the folds of her clothing carrying the eye upward. The printed caption dates this design for Wilkie Collins’s work to 1871.
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In the sources
The printed credit
DocumentedWalker’s design for The Woman in White opens the English poster-design discussion.
The design on the page
InterpretationA white-robed woman steps through an open doorway beneath a dark field of stars.
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 Fred Walker, A.R.A.Open 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-P0024
- Original scan leaf
- 24
- Recorded leaf number
- 24
- Current Reader position
- 8
- 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-P0064
- Original scan leaf
- 64
- Recorded leaf number
- 64
- Current Reader position
- 45
- Reader verification
- Matches the reviewed Reader
Illustrations
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