Charles Dickens The cricket on the hearth – Vintage Poster Wall Art
(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 Charles Dickens The cricket on the hearth, a vintage poster rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Charles Dickens The cricket on the hearth
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This 1936 silkscreen poster is one of the Federal theater Project's advertisements for an adaptation of Charles Dickens's novella *The Cricket on the Hearth*, staged in San Francisco. Its six-part layout, with twelve slides read from top left to bottom right, was a common format for WPA theater posters, which had to convey a production's story and cast in a single printed sheet. The Federal theater Project, a New Deal program that employed actors, designers and writers during the Depression, mounted low-cost plays for public audiences across the country. Its poster artists often worked in bold, flat color, as this one does, so that the work could be printed cheaply and displayed widely.
| Created / published | 1936 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : silkscreen color. |
| Notes | Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress). Six part poster with twelve slides from top left to bottom right. · Dickens Charles 1812-1870. Federal Theatre Project (San Francisco Calif.) sponsor. |
| Subjects | Theatrical productions--California--San Francisco--1930-1950. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Work Projects Administration Poster Collection |
| Original scan | 2,751 × 4,096 px · prints to 9 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 862_Charles_Dickens_The_cri_1936 |
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