Rowntree's Elect Cocoa

Highlights

• Premium canvas print of Rowntree's Elect Cocoa — original photography by Nicedesigns
• Hand-stretched 1.5" gallery wrap canvas — arrives ready to hang, no frame needed
• Fade-resistant inks for long-lasting color and rich tones, made to order
• Made to order in the United States by niceandco.
• Finished size 8" W x 8" H

Description

This bold lithographic poster advertisement features a stout figure in a black coat and top hat holding a small cup of cocoa, with ghostly outline figures sketched behind in the characteristic flat-colour style of the Beggarstaffs. The design promotes Rowntree's Elect Cocoa, a celebrated Victorian-era drinking chocolate produced by the Rowntree's confectionery company of York, England, founded by Joseph Rowntree. The Beggarstaffs — the pseudonym of British artists James Pryde and William Nicholson — created this striking work in the 1890s, exemplifying their revolutionary reductive poster style that influenced modern graphic design.