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Artist/Maker	Stannard (publisher) Alfred Concanen (lithographer)
Place of origin	London (made) Great Britain (made)

Pictorial and typographic advertisement poster with two colour illustrations of scenes from the plays - the top illustration of a quarrel in a domestic interior with two children, the bottom of an intoxicated man at a water pump outside a public house.

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Categories	Entertainment & Leisure Posters
Object type	Poster
Title	Poster (generic title)
Materials and techniques	Lithograph on card Card Lithography
Brief description	Poster advertising Among the Breakers [and] Toodles
Physical description	Pictorial and typographic advertisement poster with two colour illustrations of scenes from the plays - the top illustration of a quarrel in a domestic interior with two children, the bottom of an intoxicated man at a water pump outside a public house.
Dimensions	Poster height: 45.6cm Image height: 36.5cm Poster width: 33cm Image width: 23.8cm
Marks and inscriptions	Signed by the artist at lower right of both images Transliteration
Object history	Associated Production: Among the Breakers (Playwright: John Brougham), Toodles (playwright: R.J. Raymond). Actor: (Mr.) J.S. Clarke. Adelphi Theatre, London. 12.9.1874. Drama revivals. Among the Breakers was first produced in London at the Strand Theatre on 26.7.1869. Toodles was originally produced as The Broken Heart, Coburg Theatre, 11.4.1831. In 1874 the comedy scenes were presented as The Toodles .
Production	7 Poland Street, London
Collection	Theatre and Performance Collection
Accession number	S.273-1994

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Record created	July 23, 2010
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O1161872/poster-poster-alfred-concanen/

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