Hamlet
Poster
1894 (made)
1894 (made)
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Poster advertising W.S. Hardy’s Company touring production of Shakespeare’s 'Hamlet'; Depicting Hamlet contemplating the skull of Yorick; Silk screen stencil.
Object details
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| Title | Hamlet (popular title) |
| Materials and techniques | Silk screen stencil |
| Brief description | Poster advertising W.S. Hardy’s Company touring production of Shakespeare’s 'Hamlet'; Depicting Hamlet contemplating the skull of Yorick; Silk screen stencil; Signed; Design by Beggarstaff Brothers; Great Britain; 1894. |
| Physical description | Poster advertising W.S. Hardy’s Company touring production of Shakespeare’s 'Hamlet'; Depicting Hamlet contemplating the skull of Yorick; Silk screen stencil. |
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| Marks and inscriptions | J.W.Beggarstaff, Denham, Uxbridge (Signed.) |
| Credit line | Given by an anonymous donor |
| Object history | Gordon Craig, in a letter of Sept 25 1923, to Martin Hardie, Keeper of the Dept of EID.: "The poster design 'Hamlet' was made for and from me. I was to play Hamlet for the first time, and got the management of my strolling players to write to the Beggarstaffs. The thing was hand-stencilled, and it was pasted up in Hereford town and other provincial places" |
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| Literary reference | Shakespeare, William. <u>Hamlet</u>. |
| Associated object | E.371-1921 (Duplicate) |
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| Accession number | CIRC.605-1962 |
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| Record created | March 25, 2008 |
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