A Benjamin Pollock's Toyshop Original
Specifications
Pollock’s Toy Theatres were first produced in Victorian London as souvenirs of live theatre. Printed by the publishers of toy theatres, Theatrical Portraits were the posters of their day, featuring the celebrated performers of the live stage. The prints could be hand coloured and embellished with foil and glitter and were known as ‘tinsels’.
Charlotte Cory has created a range of contemporary theatrical prints in which her characters star in imaginary dramas on her imaginary stage at the ‘Grand Visitoria’, a theatre far grander and more colourful than any built of bricks and mortar…
The pack contains an illustrated sheet of the ‘Grand Visitoria’ story by Charlotte Cory, 6 black and white x A4 prints including 5 plates to colour in and 1 x theatrical frame created using an original Victorian toy theatre wooden printing block. Also included are a pack of gold ‘dresdens’ – scraps for ‘tinselling’ your portrait. The 2025 artists folder includes a sheet of either gold moons or suns from Covent Garden neighbour and stationery heaven ‘Choosing Keeping’.
Please note, the images shown are the black & white supplied prints which our team coloured & decorated as an example. These prints are supplied uncoloured in a decorative Pollock’s Folder in which you can keep your ‘tinsels’ whilst you embark upon your project. (A sheet of gold ‘Moons’ or ‘Suns’ are included).
- Illustrator
- Charlotte Cory
- Assembled H x W x D CM
- Each print is 29.7 x 21
- Flat Packed H x W x D CM
- 6 sheets in Pollock's Envelope
- Materials
- 300 gsm paper/card
- Country of Origin
- UK
- Age Suitability
- 6+
About Charlotte Cory
Merging the 19th century worlds of Charlotte Cory’s the Grand Visitoria featuring the ‘Visitorians’ (anthropomorphic characters based on early photographic visiting cards) with tinselled theatrical portraits is a collaboration between Benjamin Pollock’s Toyshop and Charlotte Cory who have a shared love of toy theatre, cabinets of curiosities and fantastical stories based in Victoriana. Charlotte uses collage and montage to create her ‘wholly believable’ post-Darwinian universe. The ‘Grand Visitoria’ colouring project plan was hatched over tea at The Sir John Soane’s Museum in London. However, it turned out that with Charlotte’s eavesdropping at our shop in Covent Garden she could read our minds and everything fell into place!
