Artist

Aubert's Steam Printing Works

Nell Gwynne
'Royal American Midgets'
Crazed
Exhibition of Pictures Illustrating British Field Sports and the Old Coaching Days

Aubert's Steam Printing Works is an Impressionism artist. 6 works are cataloged here, principally at Victoria and Albert Museum.

This printing outfit cranked out the late-1800s version of clickbait: bold colors, tiny performers, and titles like *Crazed* or *Ours* that promised drama. They knew posters were the Instagram of their day—stop a passerby in their tracks, sell the show in a glance. Hunt down their 1882 *Royal American Midgets* poster and you’ll see what they did: oversized letters, lurid yellows, and a ringmaster grinning straight at you from the frame.

Works by Aubert's Steam Printing Works

Collections represented

Victoria and Albert Museum

Museum

Victoria and Albert Museum

The Victoria and Albert Museum in the United Kingdom is the world's largest museum of applied arts, decorative arts and design, housing a permanent collection of over 2.8 million objects.

Catalog records compiled from museum open-access collections; the artworks shown are in the public domain. Spotted an error in this record? Tell us.