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Five Schools, Built to Deepen · Plakat — the Object Poster
Hamlet (The Beggarstaffs, 1894)
The Beggarstaffs (William Nicholson and James Pryde) · W. S. Hardy Company, 1894
Format
Archival pigment giclée on museum-grade matte art paper, color-managed to the source scan — the flat inks and stone grain intact. The 40×60 is the room-changer.
Size
$39.00
What it is
A poster by the Beggarstaffs for Hamlet, made for the W. S. Hardy company and dated 1894 in the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg record.
Why it matters
William Nicholson and James Pryde worked together as the Beggarstaffs in the 1890s, building their designs from cut paper and letting the outline do the drawing.
What to notice
Half the figure is left out; the eye supplies it.
Leave out everything the eye can supply, and the poster carries across a street.
Provenance
- School
- Plakat — the Object Poster (Various)
- Designer
- The Beggarstaffs (William Nicholson and James Pryde)
- Format
- Theater poster
- Poster published
- W. S. Hardy Company, 1894
- Source
- Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg
Rights: CLEAR. Public domain — U.S. 95-year rule (published 1930 or earlier). Gated by the poster’s own publication year. Cleared by registry on 2026-11-01.
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