Sleeping Beauty
Illustration
1898 (made)
1898 (made)
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| Place of origin |
Ernest Nister (1842-1909) began his publishing career in 1885 when he acquired a lithographic workshop in Nürnberg and printed books for London publishers. In 1888 he became a publisher in his own right with offices at 24 St. Bride Street, London. He appointed the writer and editor, Robert Ellice Mack, as director.
Nister specialised in high quality colour printing for children in the last quarter of the 19th century. Movable books with various mechanisms became his speciality after 1890 (when be published his first stand-up book) but he also produced numerous picture books, annuals, poetry, nursery rhymes, calendars and greetings cards. He worked with a core of writers, including Clifton Bingham and Robert Ellice Mack, and illustrators, in particular Eveline Lance, Harriett M. Bennett, Edith A. Cubitt and Rosa Petherick.
Evelyn Stuart Hardy produced this illustration of the Sleeping Beauty for The Land of Long Ago : a Visit to Fairyland with Humpty Dumpty, written by L. L. Weedon and published by Ernest Nister in 1898 (no. 263).
Nister specialised in high quality colour printing for children in the last quarter of the 19th century. Movable books with various mechanisms became his speciality after 1890 (when be published his first stand-up book) but he also produced numerous picture books, annuals, poetry, nursery rhymes, calendars and greetings cards. He worked with a core of writers, including Clifton Bingham and Robert Ellice Mack, and illustrators, in particular Eveline Lance, Harriett M. Bennett, Edith A. Cubitt and Rosa Petherick.
Evelyn Stuart Hardy produced this illustration of the Sleeping Beauty for The Land of Long Ago : a Visit to Fairyland with Humpty Dumpty, written by L. L. Weedon and published by Ernest Nister in 1898 (no. 263).
Object details
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| Object type | |
| Title | <u>Sleeping Beauty</u> (popular title) |
| Materials and techniques | Watercolour on card |
| Brief description | Watercolour drawing by Evelyn Stuart Hardy, 1898; commissioned by Ernest Nister. |
| Physical description | Watercolour drawing of a scene from the popular fairy tale of The Sleeping Beauty. Beauty lies asleep on a long couch covered in purple and pale blue cloth. She is surrounded by flowers and faint spiders' webs. Behind her a man in blue with a bugle over his shoulder and a sword by his side peers at Sleeping Beauty through a stone archway. Mounted on card. |
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| Production type | Unique |
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| Credit line | Donated by Anne Renier and F.G. Renier. |
| Object history | Drawn by Evelyn Stuart Hardy in 1898. Bequeathed to the V&A in 1970 by Anne and Fernand G. Renier as part of the Renier Collection. |
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| Summary | Ernest Nister (1842-1909) began his publishing career in 1885 when he acquired a lithographic workshop in Nürnberg and printed books for London publishers. In 1888 he became a publisher in his own right with offices at 24 St. Bride Street, London. He appointed the writer and editor, Robert Ellice Mack, as director. Nister specialised in high quality colour printing for children in the last quarter of the 19th century. Movable books with various mechanisms became his speciality after 1890 (when be published his first stand-up book) but he also produced numerous picture books, annuals, poetry, nursery rhymes, calendars and greetings cards. He worked with a core of writers, including Clifton Bingham and Robert Ellice Mack, and illustrators, in particular Eveline Lance, Harriett M. Bennett, Edith A. Cubitt and Rosa Petherick. Evelyn Stuart Hardy produced this illustration of the Sleeping Beauty for The Land of Long Ago : a Visit to Fairyland with Humpty Dumpty, written by L. L. Weedon and published by Ernest Nister in 1898 (no. 263). |
| Other number | Nister - Previous Renier Collection pressmark |
| Collection | |
| Library number | RENIER.298 |
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| Record created | February 26, 2008 |
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