The watermark in the lower right corner of the image will not appear on the final print.
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3.00" x 8.00"
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5.00" x 10.00"
Beggarstaffs Hamlet and skull Poster
by Heidi De Leeuw
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Beggarstaffs Hamlet and skull poster by Heidi De Leeuw. Our posters are produced on acid-free papers using archival inks to guarantee that they last a lifetime without fading or loss of color. All posters include a 1" white border around the image to allow for future framing and matting, if desired.
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Super high resolution, up to huge sizes.
Poster for a performance of William Shakespeare’s Hamlet, by The Beggarstaffs, 1894.
The Beggarstaff Brothers, officially known as Beggarstaff, J. & W., was the appellation under which the British illustrators, William Nicholson and James Pryde, published their celebrated posters.
The Beggarstaffs were brothers-in-law James Pryde and William Nicholson who opened an advertising design studio in 1894. The Beggarstaffs were known for their new technique, collage, using cut pieces of paper moved around on a board leaving a figure incomplete for the viewer to decipher. This is shown in the poster for Kassama Corn Flour where only black and yellow is used. By doing so, the viewer has to decide where the figure ends and basket end and begin as well as decipher the objects from the background. They completely ignored the floral trend of art nouveau, which made their work although an artistic success, a financial disaster. One of the posters...
About Heidi De Leeuw
Hello, my first name is Heidi. My family name is De Leeuw, which is Dutch for The Lion. I was born in the mid 1960s. From the early 1980s on I worked in sales and administration. From the moment my husband started 'AAP Art and Photography' as an ecommerce company back in 2000, I developed a growing interest in what he was doing, and specifically in digital restoration of photos, postcards and posters. Sometimes people ask me why I spend so much time in taking a worn and torn image and restoring it to its original beauty, I answer them with another question: why are old paintings and classic cars being restored? Because, make no mistake, restoration is an art and a craft. No fancy magic software, but pixel by pixel cleaning and...
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