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Scottish Widows' Fund Life Assurance Society

Poster
1888 (designed), 1890s (reissued)
Artist/Maker
Walter Crane (artist)
Place of origin
Great Britain (issued)

Poster


Object details

Categories
Prints
Advertising
Posters
Scotland
Object type
Poster
TitleScottish Widows' Fund Life Assurance Society
Materials and techniques
colour lithograph
Printing Ink
Colour Lithography
Brief description
'Scottish Widows’ Fund Life Assurance Society'. Colour lithograph poster showing a profile view of a nude man standing alongside a pegasus. Designed by Walter Crane (1888) and issued in Great Britain during the 1890s.
Physical description
Poster
Dimensions
  • Height: 76.2cm
  • Width: 51.6cm
Dimensions taken from: 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
Marks and inscriptions
  • 'SCOTTISH WIDOWS' FUND / LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY' (Lettered at the top of the design)
  • Walter Crane's mark, dated 1888 (At the bottom of the right-hand pillar)
  • 'EDINBURGH / 9. ST ANDREW / SQUARE' (Lettered on the back of the snake wrapped around the left-hand pillar)
  • 'LONDON / 28 CORNHILL / E.C' (Lettered on the back of the snake wrapped around the right-hand pillar)
  • 'TAKE TIME BY THE FORELOCK' (Lettered around the circular frame behind the man and pegasus)
  • 'DESIGNED BY WALTER CRANE. PRINTED BY R. & R. CLARK. REGISTERED DESIGN, No. 7918' (Lettered along the bottom of the sheet)
  • 'ESTABLISHED 1815 FOR MUTUAL LIFE ASSURANCE / IMMEDIATE PROVISION FOR FAMILIES ABD OLD AGE TO / THE FULL AMOUNT REQUIRED CAN BE SECURED BY / LIFE ASSURANCE WITHOUT THE RISKS AND UNCERTAINTY / ATTENDING OTHER MODES OF ACCUMULATION / SECURITY & ECONOMY IN THEIR MOST COMPLETE FORMS / ARE FOUND IN THIS OLD ESTABLISHED MUTUAL SOCIETY WHICH / CONSISTS OF THEIRTY THREE THOUSAND MEMBERS / ANNUAL REVENUE £1,200,000. / ACCUMULATED FUNDS TEN MILLIONS STG / THE WHOLE PROFITS ARE DIVIDED AMONG THE ASSURED. PERSONS INTENDING TO EF- / FECT LIFE ASSURANCES SHOULD READ THE SOCIETY'S PROSPECTUS. / DUBLIN: 41, WESTMORELAND ST BIRMINGHAM: 12, BENNET'S HILL / GLASGOW: 114, WEST GEORGE ST. NEWCASTLE ON TYNE 12, GREY STREET. LEEDS: 21, PARK ROW / LIVERPOOL: 48, CASTLE ST. BELFAST: 2, HIGH STRT.' (Passage of text lettered below the main image, with the first letter illuminated)
Credit line
Given by Emslie John Horniman
Historical context
Walter Crane began designing for the Scottish Widows' Fund Life Assurance Society in the early 1890s.
Subjects depicted
Man
Pegasus
Text
Snakes
Column
Corn
Poppy
Illumination
Pillar
Bibliographic references
  • 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
  • Victoria and Albert Museum, Department of Engraving, Illustration and Design, Accessions 1915, London: Printed under the Authority of His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1916.
Other number
10/B7 - V&A microfiche
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.4196-1915

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
Record URL
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