A Parisian seamstress suffering from anaemia is pale and weary at her sewing machine and drops her scissors; advertising the medicine Fer Bravais for anaemia. Colour lithograph by A.-L. Willette, 1896.

  • Willette, Adolphe, 1857-1926.
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[896]
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549405i
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[Paris] : [publisher not identified], [896] (Paris (Faub[our]g St Denis) : Impr[imer]ie Delanchy & Cie.)

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1 print : lithograph, printed in colours ; sheet 56 x 39.3 cm

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Fer Bravais contre l'anémie. A. Willette

References note

W.H. Helfand, Medicine & pharmacy: 100 years of poster art October 5, 1981-January 3, 1982, [Albany, N.Y.] 1981, p. 29, no. 24 (evidence for date 1896)
M. Robert-Sterkendries, La santé s'affiche, Bruxelles: Therabel, 2003, no. 200, p. 109
Cf. Beth Harris (ed.), Famine and fashion: needlewomen in the nineteenth century, Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005

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Wellcome Collection 549405i

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