Pears' Soap advertisement with a boy blowing bubbles – Antique Wall Art
(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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A window into the past: Pears' Soap advertisement with a boy blowing bubbles, preserved in this historic image. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.
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Pears' Soap advertisement with a boy blowing bubbles
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Pears' Soap advertisement featuring a boy blowing bubbles is one of the best-known images in the history of British advertising. The painting that inspired it, "Bubbles," was made by the painter John Everett Millais in 1886 and originally showed his grandson Willie James with a clay pipe. The soap company bought the picture, dropped the pipe, and added its name, turning a sentimental portrait into a wildly popular poster. It shows how late Victorian firms borrowed respectable fine art to sell everyday goods like soap.
| Original scan | 592 × 836 px |
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| Reference | 296 |
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