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L'Inhumaine World War I recruitment posters Poster for the Chestnut Street Theatre in Philadelphia, 1854. Chromolithographic poster for the Cincinnati Industrial Exposition, 1883. Polish circus poster Poster for the Glasgow Institute of Fine Arts, designed by J. Herbert McNair, Frances Macdonald, and Margaret Macdonald, 1895. Jane Avril, lithograph poster by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, 1893; in the Toulouse-Lautrec Museum, Albi, France. Poster for the play Lorenzaccio Jules Chéret “The father of the modern poster”
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L'Inhumaine
World War I recruitment posters
Poster for the Chestnut Street Theatre in Philadelphia, 1854.
Chromolithographic poster for the Cincinnati Industrial Exposition, 1883.
Polish circus poster
Poster for the Glasgow Institute of Fine Arts, designed by J. Herbert McNair, Frances Macdonald, and Margaret Macdonald, 1895.
Jane Avril, lithograph poster by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, 1893; in the Toulouse-Lautrec Museum, Albi, France.
Poster for the play Lorenzaccio
Jules Chéret
“The father of the modern poster”
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