The parachute : polka
The Parachute Polka is a piano sheet music cover published in London in 1888 by Charles Sheard & Co. at 192 High Holborn, composed by Felix Burns for popular domestic pianoforte players. The sepia cover shows a lone parachutist dangling from a canopy beneath a balloon over a faint city skyline, with lettering arched across the top and a lower band of publisher credits. A designer could take the swooping display type and the sepia monochrome palette as a period model for aeronautic-themed poster lettering.
