Poster and book-cover design in The Modern Poster (1895)
Louis J. Rhead
A woman holds the circular name of The Sun before her body, with light-coloured lines spreading outward across a dark ground. Her hair and clothing extend the flowing pattern around the central emblem. The book’s list of illustrations calls the design The Sun (Red Girl) and credits Louis J. Rhead.
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In the sources
The printed credit
DocumentedRhead’s design for The Sun places a newspaper emblem at the centre of a radiating composition.
The design on the page
InterpretationA woman holds the circular name of The Sun before her body, with light-coloured lines spreading outward across a dark ground.
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 Louis J. RheadOpen 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-P0129
- Original scan leaf
- 129
- Recorded leaf number
- 129
- Current Reader position
- 109
- Reader verification
- Matches the reviewed Reader
Illustrations
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Edward Penfield
Penfield’s Harper’s for March design joins a fashionable figure with the magazine’s name and month.
Shared source pageWill Carqueville
Carqueville’s April advertisement for Lippincott’s appears in the American section of The Modern Poster.
Same subject and traditionAdolphe Willette
Willette’s cover for Paul Delmet’s Nouvelles Chansons appears among the book’s French designs.
Same subject and traditionAubrey Beardsley
The Modern Poster reproduces Beardsley’s Bodley Head design and his Avenue Theatre announcement.