Poster for Perly-Cross, A Novel by R.D. Blackmore
Date1894
Artist
Edward Penfield
(American painter, illustrator, 1866–1925)
Illustration CitationAdvertising poster for Perly-Cross by R.D. Blackmore (New York: Harper & Bros., 1894)
MediumOffset lithograph
Dimensionssheet: 13 15/16 × 9 1/8 in. (35.4 × 23.2 cm)
Credit LineGift of Lucinda and David Pollack, 2017
Object number2017-84
On View
Not on viewClassificationsPRINT
Label TextEdward Penfield's severe bespectacled clergyman is a character in the novel Perly-Cross, which is the name of the village sketched in the background at right. In 1893, Penfield began publishing monthly posters advertising Harper's Magazine. His simplified and striking designs soon won a following; Harper's could not keep up with the requests for reproductions. His posters for other publications were similarly inventive. Penfield adopted the lively contours and colors of French street posters, while Bradley (at left) relied more on the sinuous, organic forms of Art Nouveau.
