John Bull's Advice - See the Klondyke Nugget! Original Theatre Poster
- ca 1900
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30 x 20 inches ~ (76 x 50 cm)$825
- Linen backed
Linen backing is the industry standard of conservation. Canvas is stretchered and a sheet of acid free barrier paper is laid down. The poster is then pasted to the acid free paper using an acid free paste. This process is fully reversible and gives support to the poster. A border of linen is left around the poster and can be used by a framer to mount the poster so that nothing touches the poster itself.
The price of this poster includes linen backing.
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John Bull in a Union Jack waistcoat surrounded by national and racial stereotypes, including Samuel Cody leaning against a kangaroo, a Scotsman in blue tartan with his hand on Bull’s shoulder and Uncle Sam smiling in the back.
The Klondyke Nugget was a popular nineteenth-century stage play written and performed by Samuel Franklin Cody (1867-1913). He was born in Texas as Samuel Franklin Cowdery, but later changed his last name to profit on the fame of Buffalo Bill Cody. He began his career in the Forepaugh Wild West Show. He travelled throughout the United States with his own Wild West troupe and then to England with his autobiographical play, The Klondyke Nugget which was based on his claim of having prospected for gold near Dawson City during the Klondike Gold Rush. The play apparently toured in the British Isles between around 1898 and 1904. Cody starred in the play along with his second wife and her son.
Photographed before linen backing.
