Art Print
Don Quixote (1895)
The design that helped invent modern graphic design — cut paper and flat silhouette, 1895, for a Don Quixote poster the theatre...
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The Beggarstaffs — Don Quixote
The Beggarstaffs — Don Quixote
The poster that invented the modern poster.
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The poster that invented the modern poster.
About the print
The Beggarstaffs designed this for Henry Irving’s Don Quixote at the Lyceum, and Irving turned it down — «No more mills.» The play ran the season and toured America; the poster never reached the street. The design outlived the production by a century. They worked in cut paper, in flat silhouettes and empty space, and in doing so basically invented modern graphic design. A poster built from flat shapes is a screenprint waiting to happen: we separate it into two inks — the black windmill and its shadow, the sepia knight.
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About the artist
"The Beggarstaffs" was the shared name of James Pryde and William Nicholson, brothers-in-law who for a few years in the 1890s made the most radical posters in Britain — reductive, flat, decades ahead of their moment. Their line runs straight through to the Bauhaus and modern graphic design.
The Beggarstaffs (Pryde & Nicholson) · Lyceum · Don Quixote, 1895 · Victoria and Albert Museum, London, accession E.1208-1927 · Public domain
Care — Machine wash cold, inside out. Tumble dry low. Do not iron directly on the print.
Materials & Fit
PrintScreen-printed
Fabric100% combed cotton
Weight5.3 oz / 180 gsm · midweight
FitRegular fit, pre-shrunk
ConstructionSide-seamed · shoulder-to-shoulder tape · double-needle hems
BlankAS Colour Staple 5001
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