Disease is disguised. Don't gamble with VD!.

  • Forsyth, active approximately 1946
Date:
[1946?]
Reference:
5150i
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About this work

Also known as

Previous title, replaced November 2019: The face of a beautiful woman is revealed as a mask covering her real face, which is hideously disfigured with syphilitic sores. Colour lithograph after Forsyth, ca. 1946(?).

Description

The face of a woman is revealed as a mask covering her real face, which has visible syphilitic sores.

Publication/Creation

[USA?] : [publisher not identified], [1946?]

Physical description

1 print : lithograph, printed in colours ; sheet 52.7 x 40.3 cm

Contributors

Lettering

Bears number: AGL (4)8 46 25000 5633 338

Edition

Print run: 25,000.

Notes

The title has been taken from wording on the object.

Reference

Wellcome Collection 5150i

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