Type/Technique

Advertising

Images

  • An itinerant vendor advertising his 'sales show' in a square of town. Wood engraving after F. Gilbert.
  • 'Tannafax' brand tannic acid jelly : tannic acid, with 0.5 per cent. phenol, in a water-soluble base : the modern treatment of burns and scalds : always ready for immediate application / Burroughs Wellcome & Co. (The Wellcome Foundation Ltd.).
  • Dear colleague, we recently announced details of the HIV/AIDS summer campaign in the June issue of HEADLINES ... / Dr. Spencer Hagard, Chief executive, Health Education Authority.
  • The piazza outside St Paul's church, Covent Garden, London, full of people selling their wares: a man is holding a placard advertising the products of Doctor Rock, a medicine vendor, and is holding up a bottle of the medicine. Engraving by W. Hogarth, 1738.
  • 'Tannafax' brand tannic acid jelly : tannic acid, with 0.5 per cent. phenol, in a water-soluble base : the modern treatment of burns and scalds : always ready for immediate application / Burroughs Wellcome & Co. (The Wellcome Foundation Ltd.).
  • A painting book for boys and girls / presented by Carter's Little Liver Pills.
  • Perihel ultraviolet, infrared : brings health & the sun to your home / Perihel Limited.
  • Crescent cook book / [Crescent Manufacturing Company].
  • Snowdrift secrets / [Southern Cotton Oil Co. of Great Britain Ltd].
  • J. St. John Long (a dubious medical practitioner) dressed as a funeral mourner surrounded by ducks and placards which advertise several malpractice cases of his in which patients died. Coloured etching attributed to A. Sharpshooter, 1830.

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