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The New Woman

Poster
1894 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Colour lithograph poster advertising a performance of 'The New Woman' by Sydney Grundy at the Comedy Theatre, London. It has a central illustration of a young woman wearing pince-nez and a black dress with white lace trim. She is seated on a stool in a school room painted olive green and cream. On the wall is a painting of a large key and on the floor, books and papers are strewn, two titles of which can be seen: Naked But Not Ashamed and Man The Betrayer. The scene is on a salmon pink background, with a smoking cigarette in the bottom left corner. The title and author of the play are above the image, on a pale yellow ground. The whole scene is bordered in cream with the text 'From The Comedy Theatre, London' lettered along the bottom.


Object details

Categories
Object type
TitleThe New Woman (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques
Colour lithograph
Brief description
Colour lithograph poster advertising a performance of 'The New Woman' by Sydney Grundy at the Comedy Theatre, London. Designed by Albert George Morrow, London, 1894.
Physical description
Colour lithograph poster advertising a performance of 'The New Woman' by Sydney Grundy at the Comedy Theatre, London. It has a central illustration of a young woman wearing pince-nez and a black dress with white lace trim. She is seated on a stool in a school room painted olive green and cream. On the wall is a painting of a large key and on the floor, books and papers are strewn, two titles of which can be seen: Naked But Not Ashamed and Man The Betrayer. The scene is on a salmon pink background, with a smoking cigarette in the bottom left corner. The title and author of the play are above the image, on a pale yellow ground. The whole scene is bordered in cream with the text 'From The Comedy Theatre, London' lettered along the bottom.
Dimensions
  • Size of sheet height: 72.4mm
  • Size of sheet width: 50.8mm
Dimensions taken from Victoria & Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1962. London: HMSO, 1964.
Marks and inscriptions
  • 'THE / NEW / WOMAN / By Sydney Grundy' (Lettered above the image.)
  • 'From the COMEDY THEATRE LONDON' (Lettered below the image.)
  • 'DAVID ALLEN & SONS. BELFAST. LONDON. MANCHESTER. NEW YORK. (Copyright Resd.)' (Lettered below bottom-right corner of image.)
Object history
'The New Woman' by Sydney Grundy, was first produced at the Comedy Theatre, London, 1 September 1894.
Subjects depicted
Bibliographic references
  • Victoria & Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1962. 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
  • Malhotra, R. and Thon, C., eds. Das frühe Plakat in Europa und den USA: Ein Bestandskatalog, Band I, Grossbritannien; Vereinigte Staaten von Nordamerika. Berlin. 1973, p.101.
Other number
27/E1 - V&A microfiche
Collection
Accession number
E.2682-1962

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
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