At the end of the XIX century, images of peacocks appear in many works of art. So Anglo-American artist James McNeill Whistler in 1876 wrote peacocks on the walls of the dining room in the London house of the ship magnate Frederick Leyland. The painting was called “Peacock’s room”.
This work of Whistler aroused a lot of sense and response in the press, with which William Bradley certainly knew. Probably Whistler had some influence on him, for example, like Bradley, like Whistler, he was very interested in Japanese art, for which the image of peacocks was traditional. The second example of the “peacock” theme is the work of Tiffany, who often depicted these birds, for example, Stained glass with a peacock.
Returning to Bradley, it is worth mentioning that soon after the appearance of the poster The Modern Poster, he began working on the creation of his own magazine, “Bradley: His Book.” In content, the magazine was similar to “The Chap book”, and work on this project continued until 1898.
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