The Motograph Moving Picture Book
Medium
Illustrations: wood engravings and color lithographs
Dimensions
book: 11 5/8 x 9 7/16 x 9/16 in. (29.6 x 23.9 x 1.5 cm) sheet: 11 7/16 x 9 1/16 in. (29.1 x 23 cm)
Classification
Books
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1965
Accession Number
65.657
Tags
About the Artist
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec|Bliss, Sands and Co.|François Joseph Vernay|Yorick|William Hodge & Co. · 1864–1901
Henri Marie Raymond de Toulouse-Lautrec-Montfa (1864-1901) was a French Post-Impressionist painter, printmaker, and illustrator whose innovative poster designs revolutionized graphic art and advertising in late 19th-century Paris. Born into an aristocratic family at Albi in southern France, Toulouse-Lautrec's privileged lineage traced back to the Counts of Toulouse and extended uninterrupted to th...