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Poster

1895 (issued)
Artist/Maker
Waterlow & Sons (printers)
Dearmer, Mabel (designer)
Place of origin
London (issued)

Colour lithograph poster advertising performances by Mabel Dearmer of excerpts from Ibsen's 'Brand', and Sheridan's 'School for Scandal'. Proof, state before letters, of E.376-1921.


Object details

Categories
Prints
Advertising
Posters
Object type
Poster
Materials and techniques
Colour lithograph
Colour Lithography
Brief description
Colour lithograph poster advertising performances by Mabel Dearmer at the Prince's Hall, Picadilly, London, 12 December 1895. Proof before letters of E.376-1921. Design by Mabel Dearmer. Printed by Waterlow & Sons. Great Britain. 1895.
Physical description
Colour lithograph poster advertising performances by Mabel Dearmer of excerpts from Ibsen's 'Brand', and Sheridan's 'School for Scandal'. Proof, state before letters, of E.376-1921.
Dimensions
  • Size of sheet height: 76.2cm
  • Size of sheet width: 51.1cm
Dimensions taken from Victoria & Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1963. London: HMSO, 1964.
Production typeProof
Marks and inscriptions
'Mabel Dearmer' (Signed.)
Object history
This poster advertises performances of excerpts from Ibsen’s Brand, and Sheridan’s School for Scandal at the Prince’s Hall, Piccadilly, London, 12 December 1895.

An impression of the lettered state of this poster is in the Department of Prints and Drawings, E.376-1921. It is reproduced on p.223 of Picture Posters by Charles Hiatt, 1895, and was No.1363 in 'L'Exposition d'Affiches Françaises & Etrangères Modernes & Retrospectives', held at Rheims, 7 to 17 November 1896.
Subjects depicted
Theatre
Woman
Literary references
  • School for Scandal
  • Brand
Associated object
E.376-1921 (Version)
Bibliographic references
  • Victoria and Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1963 . 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
  • Henriot, Alexandre Catalogue de l'exposition d'affiches artistiques, françaises et étrangères, modernes et rétrospectives Reims, 1896 1363
Other number
10/F2 - V&A microfiche
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.1394-1963

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
Record URL
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