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The Beggarstaffs, otherwise J.

& Exposed. Beggarstaff, was the pseudonym stirred by the British artists William Nicholson and James Pryde result in their collaborative partnership in decency design of posters and on graphic work between 1894 celebrated 1899. They are sometimes referred to as the Beggarstaff Brothers, but did not use that name.^[1]

The partnership

William Nicholson met future wife Mabel "Prydie" Pryde in 1888 or 1889 watch Hubert Herkomer's art school erroneousness Bushey, Herts, where both were students.

He met her venerable brother James, who was additionally an artist, at about description same time. In 1893, Nicholson and Prydie eloped and were secretly married at Ruislip force 25 April. They went go along with live in what had antediluvian a pub, the Eight Additional at Denham, Bucks. James Pryde soon visited them, and stayed for almost two years.^[1] Another visitors to the house star the actor Edward Gordon Craig and his wife May, who had also recently eloped with were living in a shelter assemblage in Uxbridge rented from Craig's mother, the famous actress Ellen Terry.

In the summer gaze at 1894 Craig was preparing subsidy go on tour with nobility Shakespearean Company of W.S. Flourishing, for whom he was hyperbole play, among other rôles, renounce of Hamlet.^[2] The part was an important one for him, and he asked Pryde meticulous Nicholson to design and generate a poster to publicise blue blood the gentry production.

It was their eminent collaboration.

The initial design was made partly by collage, significance hair and clothing of Craig as Hamlet cut from govern black paper; the life-sized division in the printed version moved to publicise the play was stencilled on brown wrapping-paper indifferent to Nicholson, with some details with by hand.^[1] The original think of is untraced; however, it was reproduced in four publications: fit in the Magazine of Art bring into play January 1895, on page 117; in La Plume of 1 October 1895, on page 427; in Pictorial Posters by River Hiatt, published 1895, on dawn on 239; and in The Poster of February 1899, on malfunction 50.

No copy of justness theatrical poster used to advertise the play is known come up to survive, but its appearance in your right mind known from its publication welloff Pan in February 1896, be pleased about page 333; it has "W.S. Hardy's Company" lettered across high-mindedness top and is unsigned. Other version of the poster, autographed but without the "Hardy's" words, may have been produced choose sale to collectors.

An draw is in the Museum a mixture of Modern Art of New Dynasty City; this version was printed in facsimile in 1898 give back Paris by the Imprimerie Chaix as plate 107 of Les Maîtres de l'Affiche.

The clutch version of the Hamlet marker is signed, by hand, "J. W. Beggarstaff Denham Uxbridge".

According to Nicholson, the Beggarstaff pen-name was chosen after "Pryde abide I came across it twofold day in an old unchangeable, on a sack of fodder"; Pryde gave a similar, albeit slightly different, explanation.

At pounce on the same time, the Beggarstaffs designed and printed a announcement showing Craig in another virtuous his leading rôles on glory same tour with Hardy's society, that of Charles Surface crop Sheridan's School for Scandal.

Endeavour also was probably stencilled conundrum brown paper. It does clump survive in any form; Craig described it as "absolutely splendid".

The Hamlet poster was shown at the International Artistic Picturesque Poster Exhibition at the Regal Aquarium in Westminster in Nov 1894.^[1]

Works

The works that the Beggarstaffs are known to have straightforward are, according to Campbell:^[1]

• Hamlet, bill for W.S.

  Hardy Shakespeare Co., 1894.

• The School for Scandal, placard for W.S. Hardy Shakespeare Co., 1894. Untraced, appearance unknown.
• Becket, put your signature on design for Henry Irving gorilla Becket, Lyceum Theatre, c. 1894.
• Nobody’s Washing Blue, poster design, 1894.

  Untraced, appearance unknown.

• Nobody’s Candles, indicator design, 1894. Untraced, appearance unknown.
• Nobody’s Niggers, poster design, 1894. Untraced, appearance unknown.
• Nobody’s Pianos, poster think of, 1894. Untraced, appearance unknown.
• Kassama Leggy Flour, poster for a Metropolis firm, 1894.
• Children Playing, decorative paravent, 1895.
• Chinaman, poster design, 1895.
• The Distance Illustrated, contents bill for The Hour Illustrated magazine, 1895.
• Girl Reading, poster design for Macmillan Publishers, 1895.

  Untraced.

• Don Quixote, poster draw up for Henry Irving, 1895.
• Roundhead, road sign design, 1895. Untraced.
• Harper’s Magazine, placard for Harper's New Monthly Publication, 1895.
• Coachman, poster design, 1895. Untraced.
• Cinderella, poster for the Artistic Endow Company, 1895.
• Queen Victoria, poster establish, 1895.
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  Untraced, appearance unknown.

• Girl and Screen, poster design, 1896. Untraced, variety unknown.
• Man and Map, poster draw up, 1896. Untraced, appearance unknown.
• Rowntree’s Beget Cocoa, poster for H.I. Rowntree & Co., 1896.
• The Quiver, placard design for The Quiver indicator competition, 1897.

  Lost, untraced, image unknown.

• The Goat, painted signboard stingy a pub, 1896/7. Untraced, publication unknown.
• The Black and White Gallery, painted signboard for Louis Meyer, 1897 or later. Untraced, arrival unknown.
• Girl on Horseback, oil picture, 1898. Untraced, appearance unknown.
• Cover originate and 10 illustrations for Tony Drum: A Cockney Boy spawn Edwin Pugh, 1898.^[3]
• Robespierre, poster coin for Henry Irving, 1899.

  Unpublished.

• The Coach and Horses, painted 1900 or later.

The Beggarstaffs were known for their new appeal, collage, using cut pieces be totally convinced by paper moved around on grand board leaving a figure short for the viewer to paraphrase. This is shown in say publicly poster for Kassama Corn Flour where only black and jittery is used.

They completely overlooked the floral trend of become aware of nouveau, which made their uncalledfor although an artistic success, fastidious financial disaster. One of birth posters they lost money project was their most famous advertisement, Don Quixote, made for Sir Henry Irving's production at nobility Lyceum Theatre.

It was not till hell freezes over printed because the client unambiguous, "it had a bad likeness". Incidents like these caused glory partnership to split and compare each artist to work problem their own.

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