Volpone by Ben Jonson – Vintage Poster
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Step back in time with Volpone by Ben Jonson, a vintage poster rich in period detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Volpone by Ben Jonson
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Few posters on this board pair a 1606 Jacobean satire with a Depression-era relief program, but this one does. Ben Jonson's comedy about a Venetian fox who feigns illness to lure fortune-seekers was staged in California in 1936 under the Federal theater Project, a branch of the Works Progress Administration that gave out-of-work actors, designers and stagehands paid work. Printed by silkscreen, a method the WPA poster units used to make bold, inexpensive color announcements, the piece shows how the project advertised its productions to the public.
| Created / published | 1936 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : silkscreen color. |
| Notes | Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress). · Jonson Ben 1573?-1637. Volpone.Federal Theatre Project (U.S.) sponsor. |
| Subjects | Theatrical productions--California--1930-1950. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Work Projects Administration Poster Collection |
| Original scan | 2,782 × 4,096 px · prints to 9 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 891_Volpone_by_Ben_Jonson_1936 |
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