holbein-inspired

Updated: May 22, 2025

And the artist's new invention, his new experiment, came as surely as the spring now the original wood block and now the colour print, one year the draughtsman's Holbein-inspired portrait and another the poster that excited us into collecting Chéret and Toulouse-Lautrec at a feverish rate and facing afterwards, as best we could, the problem of what in the world to do with a collection that nothing smaller than a railroad station or the hoardings could accommodate.

Elizabeth Robins Pennell - Nights: Rome, Venice, in the Aesthetic Eighties; London, Paris, in the Fighting Nineties