This complex collage, an illustration for Jules Verne's "Aound the World in Eighty Days," depicts a parade and a mob scene with American voting slogans and company names. The main image was cut from an engraving done around 1900. An exhibition catalogue of Kolar, Mesens, Schwitters & Hoffmeister at Grosvenor Gallery, st that Hoffmeister "...was the first artist to use typography as a total compositional medium regardless of the meaning of the actual words, concentrating on the purely visual image." Wescher (Collage 1968) wrote that he was the grand master of collage. This collage is depicted in Adolf Hoffmeister This collage is not depicted in the Adolf Hoffmeister book 1902-1973 edited by Karel Srp on page 283. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.