In 1900, Hassall opened his own New Art School and School of Poster Design in Kensington, with the help of his former teacher Van Havermaet; he numbered Bert Thomas, H M Bateman and Harry Rountree among his students. In 1908, the school amalgamated with Frank Brangwyn’s London School, but was closed at the outbreak of the First World War. In the post war period, he ran the very successful John Hassall Correspondence School.
For more information about John Hassall see part 1, and for earlier works, see parts 1 & 2 also.
This is part 3 of of a 12-part series on the works of John Hassall:
1900 Adelphi Theatre "Two Little Vagabonds" colour lithograph advertisement V&A Museum, London |
c1900 Patience, D'Oyly Carte Opera Co. colour lithograph poster 75.2 x 49.5 cm V&A Museum, London |
c1900 Bed Time chromolithographic print Original design nursery poster for Liberty & Co. |
c1900 Lesson Time chromolithographic print Original design nursery poster for Liberty & Co. |
c1900 Nestlé's Milk, Richest in Cream, Always to the Front (Boer War reference) lithograph poster |
1900c Nursery frieze, set of six for Liberty’s store, London © V&A Museum, London:
Artwork on brown paper 48.3 x 150 cm |
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c1900 The White Doll ink and watercolour on paper 25.4 x 25.4 cm Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, University of East Anglia |
c1900 The Goose Girl silk embroidery, after Hassall 25 x 21 cm |
c1900 The Brixton Burglary colour lithograph poster 46 x 69 cm |
c1900 The British Empire watercolour on paper 60 x 50 cm Private Collection |
c1900 The Babes in the Wood watercolour & pen & ink on paper |
c1900 Nursery frieze, set of six for Liberty’s
The designs were part of a wider collaboration between Hassall and fellow artist Cecil Aldin, “Art for the Nursery” aimed at making the appearance of children’s rooms more attractive. This resulted in an exhibition at The Fine Art Society in 1900, “Pictures for Children.”
These friezes were also displayed at the Leighton House centenary John Hassall exhibition in 1968. They were recently on display again at The Fine Art Society as part of the exhibition “British Murals & Decorative Painting 1910-1970.”
These original designs would have been printed as lithographs by Jellicoe & Co.. to be fixed directly to walls of children’s nurseries.
c1900 Tom Tom The Piper’s Son gouache on sugar paper 48.3 x 48.3 cm |
c1900 Tom Tom The Piper’s Son gouache on sugar paper 48.3 x 48.3 cm |
c1900 Stole a pig and away he ran gouache on sugar paper 48.3 x 48.3 cm |
c1900 The pig was eat and Tom was beatAnd Tom went roaring down the street gouache on sugar paper 48.3 x 48.3 cm |
1900 Little Refugees, A Scene at Orange River Station illustration for The Graphic, 3 February 1900 |
early1900s The Punch and Judy Show colour print 18.5 x 30.3 cm V&A Museum, London |
1901 Henley Rowing Regatta colour lithograph 42 x 66.5 cm Published by Henry Graves & Co. Ltd. |
1901 Old King Cole colour lithograph poster 31 x 61 cm |
1901 (or before) Dick Whittington colour lithograph poster 75.9 x 50.6 cm Plandiura Collection, Museu Naciinal d'Art de Catalunya |
1901 The Humour of Life Travelling Dog Fancier: Do either of you two want a cheerful companion for the winter? © Illustrated London News Ltd / Mary Evans |
c1901 Sinbad the Sailor colour lithograph poster 76.2 x 51.2 cm Museo Nacional d'Art de Cataunya |
c1901 The Babes in the Wood colour colour lithograph poster 75 x 50 cm Museo Nacional d'Art de Cataunya |
1902 A Runaway Girl. Theatre Royal, Sheffield colour lithograph poster 76 x 51 cm |
before 1902 Charley's Aunt colour lithograph poster 50.9 x 38.5 cm V&A Museum, London |
1902 The Four Seasons "Spring" colour lithograph |
1902 The Four Seasons "Summer" colour lithograph |
1902 The Four Seasons "Autumn" colour lithograph |
1902 The Four Seasons "Winter" colour lithograph |
1902 Xmas 1902. How Tommy carried it home, Please eat the plum pudding as above design for a Christmas card 14 x 10 cm |
c1902 Circol Artistich colour lithograph poster 11.5 x 16.4 cm Museo Nacional d'Art de Cataunya. |
c1902 His Master's Voice
Long before RCA appropriated the pup-and-phonograph icon, Nipper the dog was the emblem of HMV (His Masters Voice). The concept was originally put on canvas by Francis Barraud, who noticed that his deceased brothers pet would actually sit and listen to homemade gramophone recordings of his late master. In 1902, the rights to the image were purchased by Victor Talking Machine Company, who used the HMV tagline in its advertisements from then on until being purchased by RCA in 1929. Here, we are presented with a model made especially for the music-loving traveller a seaside parasol substituting for the phonograph “horn."
c1902 His Master's Voice, Take it on your Holiday colour lithograph poster 72.2 x 47.2 cm |
1903 A tipsy monk watercolour and body-colour, tondo 6.3 x 6.3 cm |
1903 Love and a Cottage by Keble Howard cover, published by Grant Richards |
1903 The Printseller, A Monthly Journal two- colour lithograph V&A Museum, London |