The cloister and the hearth by Charles Reade, illustrated with 550 drawings by William Martin Johnson / Edward Penfield. – Vintage Wall Art
![The cloister and the hearth by Charles Reade, illustrated with 550 drawings by William Martin Johnson / Edward Penfield., [New York] : Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1893. — vintage poster](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/ed/ed67a3b7d00d-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Few images capture their era like this vintage poster of The cloister and the hearth by Charles Reade, illustrated with 550 drawings by William Martin Johnson / Edward Penfield.. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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The cloister and the hearth by Charles Reade, illustrated with 550 drawings by William Martin Johnson / Edward Penfield.
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This poster advertises a Harper & Brothers edition of Charles Reade's historical novel *The Cloister and the Hearth*, billed as illustrated with 550 drawings. Reade first published the book in 1861, and its story of a young man caught between monastic life and domestic love in fifteenth-century Europe made it a favorite among Victorian readers. The poster's bold flat color and simple lettering reflect the 1890s boom in American poster design, when publishers used striking advertisements to sell books and magazines. Its subjects, monks and domestic life, point to the novel's two worlds, the cloister and the hearth.
| Created / published | [New York] : Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1893. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : lithograph, color ; 27 x 37 cm. |
| Genre | Book & magazine posters American 1890-1900.Lithographs Color 1890-1900. |
| Notes | Title from item. |
| Subjects | Monks--1890-1900. Women--Domestic life--1890-1900. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 5,126 × 4,087 px · prints to 17 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-226366 |
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