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"Hallo! did you come by Underground?"

Drawing
c.1920 (designed)
Artist/Maker
Underground Electric Railways Company of London Ltd (issued by)
Attwell, Mabel Lucie (designer)
Place of origin
Great Britain (designed)

"Hallo! did you come by Underground?"; Original design for a poster; Water-colour.


Object details

Categories
Prints
Advertising
Transport
Object type
Drawing
Title"Hallo! did you come by Underground?"
Materials and techniques
water-colour
Watercolour Drawing
Brief description
"Hallo! did you come by Underground?"; Water-colour; Original design for a poster issued by Underground Electric Railways Co. of London, Ltd.; By Mabel Lucie Attwell; 1920.
Physical description
"Hallo! did you come by Underground?"; Original design for a poster; Water-colour.
Dimensions
  • Sight size height: 72.6cm
  • Sight size 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
Production typeDesign
Credit line
Given by the Underground Electric Railways Company of London (UERL)
Subjects depicted
Transport
Children
Golliwog
Toys
Racism
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
  • 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.
Other number
1/G5 - V&A microfiche
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.1006-1920

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
Record URL
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