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Hamlet Beggarstaffs
Source for Image and Info The actor Edward Gordon Craig commissioned this advertising poster from Pryde and Nicholson. They signed it with a pseudonym. It is possible that they did not want their excursion into commercial art to prejudice their careers as painters in any way, but there is no concrete evidence that they wished to conceal their real identities, and they seem simply to have regarded a single pseudonym as a convenient -
Beggarstaff's Corn Flour
The Beggarstaffs, poster for Kassama corn flour, 1894. Their straightforward style was firmly established in one of their earlier posters. -
Haper's Magazine
The Beggarstaffs, poster for Harper’s Magazine, 1895. The viewer brings closure by combining fragments into a symbolic image. -
The Coachman
The Beggarstaffs, unused poster design now known as “The Coachman,” 1896. It was not uncommon during the 1890s to design posters that could become advertisements simply by inserting the client’s name. -
Don Quixote
The Beggarstaffs, poster for Don Quixote, 1896. Cut paper shapes produce a graphic image whose simplicity and technique were ahead of their time. Although the Beggarstaffs were amply paid for their work, the poster was never used. -
Robespierre
The Beggarstaffs, poster for Robespierre, 1896. As with the design for Don Quixote the actor Sir Henry Irving was not pleased with his image and rejected the poster.
