Hommage Respecteux de Nestlé

One of Mucha’s most frequent customers was Nestlé. In 1897, the owners decided to give a special gift to Queen Victoria of Great Britain to mark her 60th Jubilee in the form of a large poster (Hommage Respectueux de Nestlé, 1897). It was one of the largest that Mucha ever created. In three circular motifs, he used profiles of Queen Victoria’s head to express an allegory of the course of human life from her youth (the turning point year in which she acceded to the British throne in 1837) through middle age, when she built a vast world empire, to her in the present day, by which time she was 87 years old. The background of the poster suggests that under her rule Britain had become a strong industrial and shipbuilding power.

!Please note, the poster comes from the original lithography and therefore contains it's blemishes, such as creases etc. as shown on the preview!