Pears' Golden Series toiletries advertisement, The Regalia of the Toilet – Vintage Print
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Step back in time with Pears' Golden Series toiletries advertisement, The Regalia of the Toilet, a historic image rich in period detail. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.
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Pears' Golden Series toiletries advertisement, The Regalia of the Toilet
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Pears' Golden Series advertisement, titled *The Regalia of the Toilet*, treats everyday grooming as a ceremony, borrowing the language of royal display to make a bar of soap and a washstand look like objects of state. Pears, the London soap makers, were among the most aggressive advertisers of the late Victorian period. Under the marketing direction of Thomas J. Barratt, the firm associated its name with fine art, most famously with Sir John Everett Millais's painting *Bubbles*, which it adapted for its soap. Images like this one show how commercial color prints of the era used the prestige of royalty and high art to sell an ordinary product to a growing middle-class audience.
| Original scan | 709 × 1,030 px |
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| Reference | 1622 |
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