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Poster

1894 (issued)
Artist/Maker
Hearn, James (artist)
Place of origin
Oxford (issued)

Lithograph poster advertising Pygmalion and Galatea and The Burglar and the Judge at the New Theatre, Oxford, 7-9 June 1894. Signed.


Object details

Categories
Prints
Advertising
Entertainment & Leisure
Posters
Object type
Poster
Materials and techniques
Lithography
Printing Ink
Lithography
Brief description
Lithograph poster advertising Pygmalion and Galatea and The Burglar and the Judge at the New Theatre, Oxford, 7-9 June 1894. Designed by James Hearn ("Wierdsley Daubery"). England. 1894.
Physical description
Lithograph poster advertising Pygmalion and Galatea and The Burglar and the Judge at the New Theatre, Oxford, 7-9 June 1894. Signed.
Dimensions
  • Height: 75cm
  • Width: 50.8cm
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
Signed.
Credit line
Given by Mrs J.T. Clarke
Object history
Wierdsley Daubery was a pseudonym of the artist James Hearne to parody Aubrey Beardsley and publically criticise him. Awfly Wierdley was another fake name made up to lambast Beardsley in the press. Criticised by some for his more sexualised and suggestive drawings, various newspapers, rival artists and public figures called for Beardsley's work and emerging progressive publications of the 1890s such as The Yellow Book to be banned.
Subject depicted
Theatre
Literary reference<u>Pygmalion and Galatea, an Original Mythological Comedy</u>, a blank verse play by W. S. Gilbert.
Bibliographic reference
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
Other number
18/C5 - V&A microfiche
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.404-1921

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
Record URL
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