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For Christmas, shop between 10 & 4 and travel Underground.

Poster Design
circa 1924 (made)
Artist/Maker
Horace Taylor (artist)
Place of origin
London (made)

Poster design depicting a child surrounded by toys including a rocking horse, golly, and a ball, and a variety of stuffed animals.


Object details

Categories
Designs
Posters
Shopping
Transport
Advertising
Object type
Poster design
TitleFor Christmas, shop between 10 & 4 and travel Underground. (published title)
Materials and techniques
tempera on canvas
Tempera
Canvas
Tempera
Brief description
Horace Taylor. Original design for a Christmas London Underground poster, circa 1924.
Physical description
Poster design depicting a child surrounded by toys including a rocking horse, golly, and a ball, and a variety of stuffed animals.
Dimensions
  • Height: 40in
  • Width: 24.875in
Credit line
Given by the Underground Electric Railways Co. of London, Ltd
Subjects depicted
Toys
Golliwog
Bibliographic references
  • Victoria and Albert Museum, Department of Engraving, Illustration and Design and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1926, London: Board of Education, 1927.
  • This poster contains an image of a golly doll which first appeared as a central character in a series of books by Bertha and Florence Upton published between 1895 and 1909. Florence, the illustrator of the stories, based the golliwog on a doll she had acquired in the US in the 1880s. The appearance of this doll was influenced by the Blackface performance tradition. From the late 19th century until the 1960s, the golliwog flourished as a toy. Its image featured on toys, games, textiles and ceramics and was also used by food companies. It was only in the 1970s that its popularity in Britain began to wane and it was associated more definitively with the promotion of harmful racist stereotypes.
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.1012-1926

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
Record URL
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