A girl playing at being a nurse by rubbing "Vick" ointment on the chest of a doll. Colour lithograph.

Date:
[1950?]
Reference:
47586i
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On her head she wears a nurse's bonnet, on her feet her mother's shoes. In the foreground a jar of Vick's Vaporub ointment, described on the label as "Remède externe contre certaines formes de congestion et d'inflammation" and bearing the red triangular marque of the Vick Chemical Company

Publication/Creation

[Place of publication not identified] : Vick Chemical Company, [1950?] ([Place of manufacture not identified] : Nérot)

Physical description

1 print : lithograph, printed in colours ; sheet 47.4 x 29.3 cm

Lettering

Regarde maman!

References note

M. Robert-Sterkendries, La santé s'affiche, Bruxelles: Therabel, 2003, no. 340, p. 182

Reference

Wellcome Collection 47586i

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