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Mazawattee - "Old Folks at Home"
PRINTS AND DRAWINGS
print; advertisement
The Mazawattee Tea Company
Europe: United Kingdom
1892
paper; card
overall image: 190 mm x 273 mm; overall mount: 240 mm x 308 mm
2010.307
PRINTS AND DRAWINGS
print; advertisement
The Mazawattee Tea Company
Europe: United Kingdom
1892
paper; card
overall image: 190 mm x 273 mm; overall mount: 240 mm x 308 mm
Original advertisement for a brand of Ceylonese tea. Cut from a Christmas number of 'The Graphic' magazine and subsequently prepared for display. Features an engraving of an old woman and young girl looking old before her time, both wearing metal oval eye spectacles and drinking from tea cups, captioned as 'Old Folks at Home'. Mounted on a later red card surround.
2010.307
College Purchase, 2010