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A woman smoking a cigarette, showing the route through which the smoke passes to the heart and lungs, as a warning against smoking. Colour lithograph, ca. 1940.
- Date:
- [approximately 1940]
- Reference:
- 642527i
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Credit: A woman smoking a cigarette, showing the route through which the smoke passes to the heart and lungs, as a warning against smoking. Colour lithograph, ca. 1940. Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
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Description
Exemplifies the "Rauchstrasse" (street smoking) idea developed by Fritz Lickint (1898-1960) in the 1930s and discussed in his 1939 monograph Tabak und Organismus
Publication/Creation
[Germany] : [publisher not identified], [approximately 1940]
Physical description
1 print : lithograph, printed in colours ; sheet 60.3 x 42 cm
Contributors
Lettering
Schonen Sie Ihren Organismus ...
Lettering note
Lettering in an angular Fraktur font seldom used before ca 1940. Further lettering includes the parts of the body affected, in German
Reference
Wellcome Library no. 642527i
Type/Technique
Languages
- German
Where to find it
Location Status Access Closed stores