Poster and book-cover design in The Modern Poster (1895)
L. Raven Hill
A small, dark figure bends beneath the title while the short phrase below expands into large, widely spaced letters. Much of the sheet remains pale and open. The design’s economy makes the relationship between the gesture, the title and the verbal joke especially easy to see.
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In the sources
The printed credit
DocumentedRaven Hill’s Pick-Me-Up design is reproduced under the words He, She and It.
The design on the page
InterpretationA small, dark figure bends beneath the title while the short phrase below expands into large, widely spaced letters.
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 L. Raven HillOpen 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-P0094
- Original scan leaf
- 94
- Recorded leaf number
- 94
- Current Reader position
- 75
- Reader verification
- Matches the reviewed Reader
Illustrations
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