Poster and book-cover design in The Modern Poster (1895)
Jules Chéret
The Scaramouche cover spreads its small theatrical figures across a landscape-shaped composition. Dancing bodies, floating costume and the slanting title create movement across the front and back of the book. Its position among the French examples shows how this collection treats cover design alongside posters.
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In the sources
The printed credit
DocumentedThe Modern Poster credits Chéret with the illustrated cover for Scaramouche.
The design on the page
InterpretationThe Scaramouche cover spreads its small theatrical figures across a landscape-shaped composition.
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 Jules ChéretOpen 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-P0041
- Original scan leaf
- 41
- Recorded leaf number
- 41
- Current Reader position
- 23
- Reader verification
- Matches the reviewed Reader
Illustrations
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Shared source pageWill H. Bradley
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