High Society : mind-altering drugs in history and culture : free exhibition, 11 November - 27 February / Wellcome Collection.

  • Wellcome Collection.
Date:
2010
  • Ephemera

About this work

Description

Leaflet (folding out to a poster on the reverse) for an exhibition called 'High Society' at Wellcome Collection (183 Euston Road, London) during the Winter of 2010 / 2011. The text is in yellow over an image in blue on pink of the caterpillar on a mushroom from Alice in Wonderland by Mervyn Peake. The exhibition also covers: alcohol, coffee, tobacco, betel nuts, cocaine eye drops, ancient egyptian poppy tinctures and peyote among others.

Publication/Creation

London : Wellcome Collection, 2010.

Physical description

1 folded sheet (8 pages) : color illustrations ; 42 cm (folded to 21 cm)

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Notes

Dated October 2010.

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    EPH+47
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    Closed stores
    EPH+47:2

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