Wednesday, 27 March 2024

John Hassall - Part 5

1899 Self-Portrait
pen and ink, gouache and sepia wash 143 x 168 cm
© National Portrait Gallery, London

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 - 4 also.


This is part 5 of of a 12-part series on the works of John Hassall:


1904 The Zoo by Walter Emanuel, published by Alston Rivers:


1904 Hardback front cover

1904 A Rustic turned into a Teetotaler
two-colour lithograph

1904 I cannot bring myself to believe that this is a very witty animal
 two-colour lithograph

1904 Language
two-colour lithograph

1904 Ostrich Feathers
two-colour lithograph

1904 The inmates rose as one man, and lashed themselves into a truly terrible state of fury
two-colour lithograph

1904 Visitors thrusting their hands through the rails are advised to see that they get them back
 two-colour lithograph


1904 Round the World ABC
colour lithograph hard cover

1904 Round the World ABC
Title page

1904 The General Electric Company March sheet music
colour lithograph
1904 Veritas Mantles for Strength & Brilliancy
colour lithograph poster 47 x 37 cm

1905 Dont Tell! by John Hassall & G.E. Farrow
published by Alf Cooke Ltd., London & Leeds

1905 Dont Tell!

1905 Drury Lane Pantomime, Cinderella
colour lithograph poster 50.7 x 76 cm 

1905 Ruff & Reddy, The Fairy Guide
"The Beanstalk"
colour lithograph

c1905-10 Osram Lamps, The Light for All 
colour lithograph postcard

c1905 "Putting out" under Edward VII
chromolithograph 31.5 x 61 cm

c1905 "Putting out" detail

c1905 "Putting out" detail

c1905 Little Red Riding Hood
colour lithograph

c1905 Through the Green with the Georges
chromolithograph 31.5 x 61 cm

c1905 Through the Green with the Georges detail

c1905 Through the Green with the Georges detail

1906 "Who said Treasury?"
ink and watercolour on paper

1906 A Question of Figure.
published in The Sketch

1906 Association Football and The Men Who Made It, Vol.1
hard-back book
The Fifa Collection

1906 Barcelone Sejour d'Hiver
(Winter stay in Barcelona)
colour lithograph poster 130 x 98.5 cm

1906 Good Queen Bess (Elizabeth I):

Front Cover
hard-back, colour lithograph

Title Page

Childhood of Elizabeth I
colour lithograph

Elizabeth I proclaimed Queen at Hatfield
colour lithograph

The Coronation of Queen Elizabeth I
colour lithograph

Elizabeth I accompanies her sister, Queen Mary, on her entry into London
colour lithograph

Elizabeth I accompanies her sister, Queen Mary, on her entry into London
 colour lithograph

Elizabeth I and Sir Walter Raleigh
colour lithograph

Elizabeth I dancing lesson
colour lithograph

Elizabeth I protests against the Scottish use of the Royal Arms
colour lithograph

Elizabeth I refuses the Crown of the Netherlands
colour lithograph

Elizabeth I reviews the troops at Tilbury
colour lithograph

Elizabeth I with William Shakespeare and Francis Bacon
colour lithograph

The revels at Kenilworth
colour lithograph

How Elizabeth I dealt with tramps
colour lithograph

Elizabethan London at Night
colour lithograph

The first pipe smoked in England
colour lithograph

Sir Francis Drake and Sir John Hawkins at bowls
colour lithograph

The Invincible Armada attacked by Fire Ships
colour lithograph

The last of the Invincible Armada
colour lithograph

Every inch a Queen
colour lithograph

How Elizabeth I dealt with tramps
colour lithograph

Monday, 25 March 2024

John Hassall - Part 4

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 - 3 also.


This is part 4 of of a 12-part series on the works of John Hassall:


1903 An ABC by G.E. Farrow, published by Dean & Son, London:


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c1903 Hop O' My Thumb 

published by Blackie & Son Limited:


Front Cover

A woman came to the door

Boys forgave their parents and they were very happy to see them again. 

Hop o' my Thumb let the peas fall by the wayside

The poor woman at the roadside

They saw the giant going at a great pace

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1903 Bank, New Forest
watercolour 36 x 21 cm
Exhibited at the John Hassall Centenary Exhibition, Leighton House

before 1903 Robinson Crusoe
colour lithograph poster 76 x 50.8 cm 
Museo Nacional d'Art de Cataunya

before 1903 Robinson Crusoe
colour lithograph poster 76.2 x 50.6 cm 
Museo Nacional d'Art de Cataunya

1903 Ding! Din! Don!
rag book with nine leaves, printed on cloth 27.9 x 20.3 cm

1903 Ding! Din! Don!

1903 Ding! Din! Don!

1903 Fallen Jester
watercolour artwork 51 x 29 cm

1903 Love and a Cottage by Keble Howard cover
published by Grant Richards

1903 Young girl wearing a hat
 ink and coloured chalk 63.5 x 48.2 cm

1904 Drury Lane Pantomime, The White Cat
chromolitograph poster 50.8 x 76.3 cm

1904 Look before you leap
colour postcard

1904 Makes the Hair Grow

John Hassall reigned supreme as the poster king during the first two decades of the twentieth century, but some of his designs were rejected by nervous clients. Hassall ensured they were reproduced in issues of The Poster magazine, and here, as a series in The Sketch magazine.


1904 "Some rejected posters" by John Hassall
Makes the Hair Grow
black and white lithograph
© Illustrated London News Ltd / Mary Evans