Tuberculosis: a girl treated for tuberculosis, standing in an orchard in the open air, with a tuberculosis convalescent home in the background. Colour lithograph, 1937.

Date:
1937
Reference:
668542i
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Publication/Creation

[Belgium] : Ligue nationale belge contre la tuberculose, 1937 (Brux[elles] (14, rue d'Or) : Établ. Génér. d'Imp. (Dir. J. Sieben))

Physical description

1 print : lithograph, printed in colours ; sheet 100 x 61.5 cm

Lettering

Ligue nationale belge contre la tuberculose et la mortalité infantile. Protégez-nous. Tournai 1937. Oeuvre nationale belge de défense contre la tuberculose Bears device: cross with two cross-bars, which was adopted as the symbol of the fight against tuberculosis on 23 October 1902 at a Berlin conference, on the suggestion of Gilbert Sersiron. It had been the device on the standard of Godfrey of Bouillon, who had placed it on the tower of the Basilica of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem in 1099. Its adoption indicated that the fight against tuberculosis was analogous to a crusade seen from the Christian point of view "Protégez-nous" as if hand-written in a lined schoolbook by the girl in the picture

References note

Marine Robert-Sterkendries, Posters of health, 1996, no. 364 (as by an unknown author)

Reference

Wellcome Collection 668542i

Creator/production credits

Artist's monogram, lower right, undeciphered: possibly dTg or dTS in a circle

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