William Hamilton's Excursions

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Artist/Maker	Stafford & Co. (issued by) Unknown (maker)
Place of origin	Nottingham (made)

This poster is printed without the name of a venue so that it could be used wherever Hamilton's Excursions, a popular diorama presentation, was shown. William Hamilton, named on this poster, who was one of the four brothers who ran Hamiltons Dioramas between 1848 and the early 1920s.

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Category	Posters
Object type	Poster
Title	William Hamilton's Excursions (generic title)
Materials and techniques	colour lithograph Paper Colour Lithograph
Brief description	Poster for an entertainment touring the provinces issued by Stafford & Co., Nottingham; 'William Hamilton's Excursions'; ca 1900; Britain; colour lithograph.
Physical description	Colour lithograph of a poster advertising a touring production of 'William Hamilton's Excursions'
Dimensions	Height: 30in Width: 20in Dimensions taken from Victoria and Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings Accessions 1935 London: HMSO, 1935.
Credit line	Given by Mr. M. J. Landa
Summary	This poster is printed without the name of a venue so that it could be used wherever Hamilton's Excursions, a popular diorama presentation, was shown. William Hamilton, named on this poster, who was one of the four brothers who ran Hamiltons Dioramas between 1848 and the early 1920s.
Bibliographic reference	Victoria and Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings Accessions 1935 London: HMSO, 1935
Collection	Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number	E.139-1935

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Record created	June 30, 2009
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O738360/william-hamiltons-excursions-poster-unknown/

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