Cinder-Path Tales
Date1896
Artist
John Sloan
(American painter, etcher, and illustrator, 1871–1951)
Illustration CitationAdvertising poster for Cinder-Path Tales, by William Lindsey (Boston: Copeland & Day, 1896).
MediumCommercial lithograph, black and white on brown paper
Dimensionscomposition: 22 × 11 in. (55.9 × 27.9 cm)
sheet: 23 3/4 × 13 5/8 in. (60.3 × 34.6 cm)
sheet: 23 3/4 × 13 5/8 in. (60.3 × 34.6 cm)
Credit LineGift of Helen Farr Sloan, 1997
Object number1997-268
On View
Not on viewClassificationsPRINT
Label TextSloan's bold illustrations for the Philadelphia newspapers drew the attention of publishers looking for striking images for book covers and advertisements in the mid-1890s.
