Shredded Wheat Mabel Lucie Attwell

£950.00

Rare early original antique poster for Shredded Wheat by the notable British illustrator, Mabel Lucie Attwell (1879-1964): Shredded Wheat 100% food The happy way to health. Great image of a girl with bows in her plaited hair playing with her dolls, puppets, teddy bear and other toys, serving a bowl of cereal from a box of Shredded Wheat on the table, with the caption "Same as Mum, Dad & Me!" and an adapted children's nursery rhyme - There was once an old lady who lived in a shoe ... This modern young woman won't live in a shoe / And although she has kiddies she knows what to do / Shredded Wheat for your breakfast / My darlings! cries she / And you will grow strong / Same and Mum, Dad and Me! - with illustrations of a lady in a shoe and children around the outside of the circle in the background, with the price of 8D. Shredded Wheat is a popular brand of whole wheat breakfast cereal invented in America by Henry Perky in 1890. Fair condition, restored tears and loss, backed on linen.

Country

UK

Year

1910s

Style

Advertising Posters

Artist

Mabel Lucie Attwell

Size (cm)

49.5x36.2