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Untitled

Tribes Printing Works

1913

From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum

Early Modern

Dominant colour

Untitled is a 1913 by Tribes Printing Works, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.

Who painted this?: Tribes Printing Works
When & what style?: 1913
Where can I see it?: Victoria and Albert Museum

About this work

This 1913 poster by Tribes Printing Works advertised a variety act. It’s small but packed with bold letters and bright colors. That’s how circus posters grabbed attention back then. The poster lived in Pansy Chinnery’s archive. She saved everything from her long career—posters, costumes, even broken pulleys. She started flying through circus rings in 1897 with Barnum and Bailey. Later she juggled comic stunts on English stages. Look up the Victoria and Albert Museum for more of her collection.

The story of this work

Overview

The letterpress-printed poster or playbill, produced by Tribes Printing Works in 1913, advertises a variety programme at Collins's Music Hall in London for the week beginning Monday, 7 July 1913. The event features acts such as George Carney’s *The Wedgwood Classics*, a comedy sketch by Warden Reed & Co., and performances by Horace Leighton and Pansy Lindford, among others. The poster is printed in red and blue typeface on cream paper and is part of the archive of performer Pansy Chinnery, who collected materials related to her career in aerial and variety acts.

Read the full account in the museum source.

About the artist

Artist

Tribes Printing Works

This anonymous collective cranked out bold posters for circuses and vaudeville shows in early 1900s New York, stacking type and images like a neon sandwich.

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