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Hearth & Home

Poster
ca.1895 (made)
Artist/Maker
Vincent Brooks, Day & Son (printer)
Beeton & Co. Ltd. (publisher)
Arton (designer)
Place of origin
London (made)

Colour poster with a full-length illustration of a woman wearing a black dress with a red, fur-trimmed stole about her shoulders, and a black hat.


Object details

Categories
Advertising
Prints
Posters
Object type
Poster
TitleHearth & Home (generic title)
Materials and techniques
colour lithograph
Lithography
Brief description
'Hearth & Home: The Daintiest Lady's Paper'. Poster advertising a periodical for women, with an illustration of a woman in a black dress. Colour lithograph designed by Arton; ca.1895.
Physical description
Colour poster with a full-length illustration of a woman wearing a black dress with a red, fur-trimmed stole about her shoulders, and a black hat.
Dimensions
  • Size of sheet height: 76.2cm
  • Size of sheet width: 51.1cm
Dimensions taken from Victoria & Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1963. London: HMSO, 1964.
Marks and inscriptions
  • 'Hearth & Home' 'The Lady's Daintiest Paper' 'New Series' (Printed in black at the top of the sheet)
  • 'Price 3D Weekly.' 'Beeton & Co. Ltd. 6 Fetter Lane E.C.' (Printed in red at the bottom right of the sheet)
  • 'Arton' 'Vincent Brooks, Day & Son. Lith.' (Signed with designer's name and lettered with printer's name)
Subjects depicted
Woman
Dress
Stoles (Outerwear)
Bibliographic references
  • Victoria and Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1963 . London: HMSO, 1964.
  • Summary Catalogue of British Posters to 1988 in the Victoria & Albert Museum in the Department of Design, Prints & Drawing. Emmett Publishing, 1990. 129 p. ISBN: 1 869934 12 1
Other number
1/G4 - V&A microfiche
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.1378-1963

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
Record URL
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