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Description: | Concept: entertainment, cartoons, military personnel, uniform, agriculture / food Description: whole: the image is positioned in the lower three-quarters, partially held within a circular inset. A smaller image is located in the lower left quarter. The title and text are separate and placed in the upper quarter and lower right, in black, in red outlined black, and in red. All set against a white background. image: a shoulder-length depiction of the cartoon character Old Bill, wearing a balaclava helmet and greatcoat. In the background a star shell, arcing from left to right, explodes against a dark blue sky. The smaller image is a stoneware rum jar, two empty plum and apple jam tins and an entrenching tool. text: CAPTAIN BRUCE BAIRNSFATHER PRESENTS 'THE JOHNSON 'OLE' (by Capt. Bruce Bairnsfather and C. Macdonald Hastings) PLAYED AS BAIRNSFATHERLAND over 200 times at the LONDON HIPPODROME. 'A STAR TURN ON OUR BILL.' Bruce Bairnsfather HARRY THURSTON AS 'OLD BILL' (THE WALRUS.) PLUM and AP[PLE] APPLE and PLUM BYSTANDER COPYRIGHT. JOHN WADDINGTON, LTD 20. FLORAL ST. LONDON and LEEDS. Object: tin can, balaclava, jar, entrenching tool | Subjects: | poster | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Bairnsfather, Bruce Printer: John Waddington Ltd, London and Leeds Publisher/Sponsor: Bystander Associated Person: Old Bill | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=2650... | Go to resource |
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