Oliver Twist - Nancy Sikes – Vintage Poster
![Oliver Twist - Nancy Sikes, Hartford, Conn. : Calhoun Print Co., [188-] — vintage poster](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/9a/9a524d98003b-L.webp)
(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.)
Description
This rare vintage poster captures Oliver Twist - Nancy Sikes in remarkable detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Oliver Twist - Nancy Sikes
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This poster advertises a stage production built around Nancy, the young woman in Fagin's gang whom Bill Sikes kills in Charles Dickens's novel *Oliver Twist*, serialized in 1837 and 1838. Dickens drew her as a working-class figure in the London underworld, and the subject tags on the record point to the period's concern with women's labor and poverty in England. The poster was printed by the Calhoun Print Co. in Hartford, Connecticut, in the 1880s, when Dickens adaptations were a staple of American theater. Its color woodcut style was typical of the bold, eye-catching bills that theaters used to draw audiences.
| Created / published | Hartford, Conn. : Calhoun Print Co., [188-] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : woodcut, color. |
| Genre | Theatrical posters American 1880-1890.Woodcuts Color 1880-1890. |
| Subjects | Women--Employment--England--1830-1840. Working class--England--1830-1840. Theatrical productions--1880-1890. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,806 × 4,662 px · prints to 13 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-220437 |
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