A woman personifying France (?) rescuing a baby from the tentacles of an octopus representing tuberculosis. Colour lithograph by L. Cappiello, ca. 1922.

  • Cappiello, Leonetto, 1875-1942.
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[1922?]
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47573i
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A woman personifying France (?) rescuing a baby from the tentacles of an octopus representing tuberculosis. Colour lithograph by L. Cappiello, ca. 1922. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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[Paris] : Commission américaine contre la tuberculose en France, [1922?] (Paris : Devambez Imp., Concessionaire exclusif des nouvelles créations Cappiello)

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1 print : lithograph, printed in colours ; image 74 x 45.4 cm

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Écrasez la tuberculose et sauvez l'enfance. L. Cappiello

References note

Marine Robert-Sterkendries, Posters of health, Brussels 1996, no. 355
M. Robert-Sterkendries, La santé s'affiche, Bruxelles: Therabel, 2003, no. 620, p. 314
Jack Rennert, Cappiello: the posters of Leonetto Cappiello, New York 2004, no. 359 (gives date ca. 1922)
Julia F. Irwin, '"Sauvons les bébés": child health and U.S. humanitarian aid in the First World War', Bulletin of the history of medicine, 2012, 86: 37-65 (on American aid in France)

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Wellcome Collection 47573i

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