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Pictorial Poster part 4
Less unexpected are two other French paper-covers herewith reproduced. Full of character is that which appears on the outside of "Bric-a.-Brac," an album of comic sketches by that delightful pictorial humorist, the Franco-Russian who calls himself Caran d'Ache. Pleasantly rococo is the eighteenth century flavor of the design with which M. Louis Morin has adorned the cover of a recent illustrated edition of Gautier's "Petit Chien de la Marquise."
One of the most amusing of M. Cheret's covers is that prepared for the illustrated catalogue of the" Exposition des Arts incoherents," in 1886; it is as artistic and as incoherent as any of the studio jokes which may have been shown in the exhibition itself. Especially noteworthy is the humor with which the pictures on both the sides and the back are combined and yet kept separate. Mr. Harry Furniss con fined his design for a British pamphlet about the "pictures of 1891" to the front of the wrapper, which had for its centre a palette with portraits of the best-known artists of London.
