History of the Printed Image Network Webinar: Illustrating Festivals


  • When? 14 December 2023 - 14 December 2023 , 17:00 - 18:30
  • Where? Online
Sketch of two green baubles on a pink background, text above them reading CHRISTMAS GREETINGS

ArtsFest Online and The History of the Printed Image Network are pleased to present our next instalment in the HoPIN series of talks.

Presentations by Dave Steel, Printmaker; Anthony Quinn, Freelance Journalist. The event will be chaired by David Osbaldestin, Birmingham City University. There will be a Q&A following the presentations.

KRISTIN BLUEMEL Joan Hassall’s The Marriage of Robin Redbreast and the Wren

BRIAN MAIDMENT, 'Christmas newly invented - Thomas Hervey's Book of Christmas (1837)'

LORRAINE JANZEN KOOISTRA, Jack Yeats’s illustration of the Hunt the Wren Day ritual in celebration of St Stephen’s Day

DAVE STEEL, Free festival posters of the 1970s

JOANNE McNEISH, Illustrating Printers’ Ingenuity through 75 Years of Edinburgh Festival Fringe Ephemera

ANTHONY QUINN, Festive magazines and special numbers

FRANCESCA TANCINI Walter Crane and his Christmas-related cards and ephemera

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