Passages from modern English poets
A Victorian illustrated anthology of English poetry from 1862, published in London by Day & Son and produced by the Junior Etching Club, a group of young artists that included James McNeill Whistler. The pictures are etched plates, several printed sideways on the page, with a loose, sketchy line in pen-like hatching. A designer might take from them the economical, gestural pen-and-etching style and the way single figures are set against pale, unfinished backgrounds.
