Object Number: TC2466

Collection: Social History

Object Name: painting

Description: Wide wooden frame, gilded plaster decorative inner edge. Original art-work for advertisement. Picture shows a small boy wearing a black silk top hat, black Eton jacket and waist-coat, white shirt with wide stiff collar and red tie, fawn trousers and shoes, searching in his trouser pocket (for money). He is standing outside a shop with green painted bow windows. In the window are various Fry's products - an advertisement for Fry's Milk Chocolate (Five Boys), tins of Fry's Breakfast Cocoa, Homeopathic Cocoa, Malted Cocoa, Fry's Chocolates and Vanilla Chocolate. Beneath the window is written in blue lettering, 'Fry's Pure Breakfast Cocoa - 300 Gold Medals etc.' There is a pile of books, tied with a leather strap, lying on cobbles beneath the window. In the bottom left-hand corner is written, 'So near and yet so far.' Label on back 'MR. W.G. AYRES, SALARIES OFFICE, SOMERDALE.' Framers' label - 'FROST AND REED, BRISTOL CLARE STREET, CLIFTON, 47 QUEEN'S ROAD.'