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The Poster--an illustrated monthly chronicle now ready / David Allen & Sons, Ltd. – Vintage Poster Wall Art

The Poster--an illustrated monthly chronicle now ready / David Allen & Sons, Ltd., [1898] — vintage poster
The Poster--an illustrated monthly chronicle now ready / David Allen & Sons, Ltd., [1898]. Vintage poster from the Fine Art Prints collection.

(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 advertisements of the 1890s carry a signature that reads backward, but this chromolithograph is marked "Mosnar Yendis," the name of Sidney Ransom reversed. Ransom was connected with *The Poster*, an illustrated monthly that promoted the new art of the poster during the decade's boom in colorful advertising. Printed by David Allen & Sons, a firm known for its lithographic work, the sheet combines the subjects of relations between the sexes and masks. That pairing was common in fin-de-siècle design, where theatrical disguise often stood in for romantic and social tension.

Created / published[1898]
Medium1 print (poster) : chromolithograph ; 79 x 55 cm.
GenreAdvertisements 1890-1900.Book & magazine posters 1890-1900.Chromolithographs Color 1890-1900.
NotesSigned MOSNAR YENDIS" for Sidney Ransom. Promotional goal: Gt. Brit. D41. 1898."
SubjectsRelations between the sexes--1890-1900. Masks--1890-1900.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,811 × 4,706 px · prints to 13 × 16 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-220205

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