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Elected an Associate of the Royal Institute of British Architects (ARIBA) in  1881, he started his own practice in London in the same year. He was responsible for extensions to the Tate Gallery and decorative schemes at Liverpool Old Town Hall and Chatsworth House in Derbyshire. In addition to many other building projects, he found success as a garden designer, painter, and graphic artist. In the late 1890s, he designed a series of limited edition, hand-painted small posters (also known as window bills) promoting Fuller's confectionary. This design differs from his others of 1899 which mostly depict glamorous, fashionable women holding plates of cakes, boxes of nougat, or in one  Japonisme-inspired design, a fishbowl. [See 'The Poster Collectors' Circular Volume, Issue 3, 1899 for images of the others which are not in the museum collection].","physicalDescription":"Poster showing boats at sea.","artistMakerPerson":[{"name":{"text":"Walker, William Henry Romain","id":"AUTH408417"},"association":{"text":"artist","id":"AAT25103"},"note":""}],"artistMakerOrganisations":[],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[{"text":"printing ink","id":"AAT187371"},{"text":"watercolour","id":"x33202"}],"techniques":[{"text":"line block","id":"x34849"},{"text":"hand-colouring","id":"AAT133555"}],"materialsAndTechniques":"Line block print, hand coloured with watercolour","categories":[{"text":"Posters","id":"THES252963"},{"text":"Prints","id":"THES48903"},{"text":"Advertising","id":"THES49001"},{"text":"Boats and ships","id":"THES260021"}],"styles":[],"collectionCode":{"text":"PDP","id":"THES48595"},"images":["2014HG5277"],"imageResolution":"high","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"LVLC (VA)","id":"THES49171"},"free":"","case":"Y","shelf":"60","box":"B"}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"posters","id":"AAT27221"}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[{"place":{"text":"Britain","id":"x32019"},"association":{"text":"issued","id":"x45592"},"note":""}],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"1899","earliest":"1899-01-01","latest":"1899-12-31"},"association":{"text":"issued","id":"x45592"},"note":""}],"associatedObjects":[],"creditLine":"Given by Bertram Evans","dimensions":[{"dimension":"Height","value":"20.25","unit":"in","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"1939","earliest":"1939-01-01","latest":"1939-12-31"},"part":"","note":""},{"dimension":"Width","value":"25","unit":"in","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"1939","earliest":"1939-01-01","latest":"1939-12-31"},"part":"","note":""}],"dimensionsNote":"","marksAndInscriptions":[],"objectHistory":"","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"Poster proof by William Henry Romaine-Walker for 'Fuller's Clam Broth' advertising a brand of soup; 1899; Britain; line-block coloured by hand.","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"<u>Victoria and Albert Museum, Department of Engraving, Illustration and Design & Department of Paintings, Accessions 1939</u>, published under the Authority of the Ministry of Education, London, 1950"},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"This poster in mentioned in The Poster Collectors' Circular Volume: 1  Issue: 3  March 1899 Page: 39 pp: 7 with the following excerpt which names the artist.  When the poster entered the V&A collection is was designated as an anonymous American work as the poster is unsigned. While the company of Fuller's was American, the artist was British and always lived in England:\r\n\r\n'Of a distinctly different class belong the designs that are used exclusively by Fuller’s, the American confectioners, to whom we are indebted for the privilege of reproducing a selection of them herein. These are all the work of Mr. W. H. Walker, the artist exclusively retained by Messrs. Fuller. The designs sufficiently explain themselves, but it is interesting to note that they are all printed in one colour only, and they are completed by handwork in water colour, which, of course, lends them a distinct additional value. Messrs. Fuller never print more than two hundred of any one design, and many designs are limited to one hundred copies, a fact which collectors will appreciate'."}],"production":"","productionType":{"text":"","id":""},"contentDescription":"","contentPlaces":[],"associatedPlaces":[],"contentPerson":[],"associatedPerson":[],"contentOrganisations":[],"associatedOrganisations":[],"contentPeople":[],"associatedPeople":[],"contentEvents":[],"associatedEvents":[],"contentOthers":[],"contentConcepts":[],"contentLiteraryRefs":[],"galleryLabels":[],"partNumbers":["E.498-1939"],"accessionNumberNum":"498","accessionNumberPrefix":"E","accessionYear":1939,"otherNumbers":[],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE"],"assets":[],"recordModificationDate":"2025-05-22","recordCreationDate":"2009-06-30","availableToBook":false}}