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Hassall went on to produce work for Allen and Sons for seven years, designing appealing and commercial posters. He worked fast, and by 1899 had designed over 600 posters as well as producing illustrations for nursery rhymes and fairy stories. \n\nHassall disliked lettering dominating posters, as he told an interviewer from <i>The Poster,</i> June 1898: 'The less writing the better.  Even the principal words should be small; for it the design achieves its object, the public would find the name with a microscope if necessary.' Little lettering was needed on tour posters in any case, since the details of the venue would have been added by the relevant theatres.\n\n<i>Patience</i> opened at London's Opera Comique Theatre in April 1881, transferred to D'Oyly Carte's new theatre the Savoy, in April 1881, and was first revived by D'Oyly Carte at the Savoy in November 1900.  It was in the repertory of one of Carte's touring companies from 1881 onwards, but this poster was probably designed for the tour of the first revival.","physicalDescription":"Colour lithgraph poster for a touring production of <i>Patience</i> featuring an image of Patience in a panniered floral dress and white apron, holding a wide-brimmed hat on her head with her right hand and resting a milk churn against her left hip with her left arm. 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