Picture Posters: A Short History of the Illustrated Placard with Many Reproductions of the Most Artistic Examples in all CountriesHiatt, Charles
History
Picture Posters: A Short History of the Illustrated Placard with Many Reproductions of the Most Artistic Examples in all Countries
Hiatt, Charles
Posters -- History
matter they had some of those vast natural developments which appeal to
mere man as absolutely terrific. The waterfall, splashing itself into
luminous dust, the immense and silent mountains, the lakes which are
seas, the vasty canons which occur in different parts of the States,
inevitably appeal to the imagination. It is therefore not wonderful that
the great lines of America have preferred literal and exact illustration
to fantastic delineation. The railways of France, on the other hand,
have employed to no inconsiderable extent the artist to figure the
beauties of the places at which they have stations. Amongst the most
important French designers who have worked at the railway _affiche_
are:-Fraipont (G.): ("Chemin de fer de l'Etat: Bains de mer de Royan":
"Royan sur l'Ocean," "Chemin de fer d'Orleans: Excursions en Tou-raine":
"Excursions en Touraine et aux chateaux des bords de la Loire," "Chemin
de fer de l'Ouest: Argenteuil a Mantes," "Cie de l'Ouest et de Brighton:
Fleurs, fruits, primeurs a destination de Londres," "Paris a Londres
(L'Angleterre et l'Ecosse)" "Chemin de fer du Nord: Excursions a la
mer," "Chemin de fer de l'Est: Royat," "Chemin de fer de l'Ouest:
Bretagne, Normandie," "Normandie et Bretagne," "Chemin de fer de l'Ouest
a Brighton: Paris a Londres," "Chemin de fer du Nord: Anvers, Exposition
universelle.") Ochoa: ("Club Train," "Mediterranee," "Express (Cie Int.
des wagons-lits)," "Orient-Express," "Peninsular-Express"). Hugo d'Alesi
(_affiches_ simili-aquarelles): "Paris, Lyons, Marseilles, Algerie,"
"Geneve," "L'hiver a Nice," (two subjects), "Lac de Thoune,"
"Mont Revard," "Le Mont Rose," "Le Puy," "Tunisie," "La Turbie,"
"Uriage-les-Bains," "Chemin de fer du Midi: Pyrenees," "Chemin de fer
d'Orleans: Excursions en Auvergne" (1894), "La Creuse et l'Indre,"
"Chemin de fer de l'Ouest: Dieppe," "L'Auvergne (Orleans)." Lefevre
(L.): "Nord. Ete a Cobourg," "Orleans Excursions aux Pyrenees," "Bains
de mer du Golfe de Gascogne," "Ouest Excursions sur les cotes de
Normandie, en Bretagne, et a l'ile de Jersey." Among other designers for
French railway companies and watering-places may be named Orazi, whose
"Trouville" poster is reproduced on p. 181, Balzer, Baylac, Japhet, and
Oge.
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CHAPTER VI.--IN ENGLAND: FROM FRED WALKER TO DUDLEY HARDY
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