'WANNASEEMYETCHINGS?' QUESTION: THE #HAMMERFILMS DRACULA PORTRAIT ONE AND THE SAME?

THE FOLLOWING is a post made at the Facebook PCASuk Fan Page today . . .

 

'WOULD YOU LIKE TO SEE MY ETCHINGS? wink😉 wink😉 Well, here's two and an interesting query from a #PeterCushing fan! 'I don't have the films on dvd or tape, but me and a few others huge Christopher Lee fans in my family, were arguing last night, that the black and white drawing hanging in #VanHelsing's office of #Dracula is the SAME drawing that is also seen on the Scars of Dracula posters and the cover of a Scars of Dracula film dvd I do own. Please tell me I am right, there's a family take-away supper hanging on this. Thank you, Dave T Graham and family'

 

'HI DAVE!  I have posted and shared several photographs here and a blu ray scan of what are TWO portraits. They were used in TWO separate Hammer Dracula films, '#ScarsofDracula' and '#DraculaAD1972' you'll see that the AD one looks very similar in style to the SCARS publicity portrait.. but, nope I am afraid they are not the same artwork. The SCARS style portrait by artist MICHAEL VAUGHAN, who also created the #HorrorofFrankenstein poster art, was actually used in several characters featured on the poster too. But that ancient engraving / etching look used in the Dracula portrait hanging in Van Helsing's study... is quite different. Sorry Dave. The meal it seems is on you 😕

 

ABOVE: Poster art by film poster art legend, #TomChantrell was used before production, maybe during Sir James's 'funding and lolly' tout' to provide the budget for Scars... an interesting poster that incorporate no elements from the actual film, as this was probably BEFORE the script was written. But the poster uses elements of Tom Chantrell's artwork of Dracula from the very popular 'Dracula has Risen from the Grave' cinema poster, with Tom himself posing as Dracula and a Jacqueline Pearce look a likey from 'Plague of the Zombies' or 'the Reptile' ??? Despite that, the artwork is typical Chantrell-amazing!' 

 

ABOVE: One of the campaign cinema posters used by Hammer's 'Scars of Dracula' featuring a DIFFERENT portrait and etching coloured style... this artwork was by artist Mike Vaughan...who also created the artwork on the double cinema poster for #HorrorofFrankenstein both films were released as a #doublebill in cinema's in the UK... 

 

'Candle lit 'Take-away supper' with your guest, Dave?' 

Christopher Lee in 'Scars of Dracula' 1970

 

MIND YOU, it could be much worse, it could be Dracula who is coming around for supper.. and a take away, might not 'cut it' 😲😨 Thanks for the opportunity to solve this one for you though! - Marcus

 

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