A bourgeois man and woman smiling as they leave a tuberculosis clinic, after carrying out the citizens' duty of being examined for tuberculosis. Colour lithograph by H. Thelander, 1947.

  • Thelander, Henry.
Date:
[1947]
Reference:
689184i
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Description

"A shadow couple happily walks arm in arm. In the background, the abstract form of a modernist building, looking like an arrow and suggesting a statistical increase, is labeled "Folke-tuberkulose undersøgelse" (People's tuberculosis examinations)"--An iconography of contagion, loc. cit.

Publication/Creation

[Copenhagen?] : [publisher not identified], [1947] (København : Andreasen & Lachmann)

Physical description

1 print : lithograph, printed in colours ; sheet 85 x 62 cm

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Lettering

Tuberkulose undersøgelse - en borgerpligt. Thelander 47

References note

M. Sappol, An iconography of contagion, [s.l., 2008], unnumbered page (reproduced)

Reference

Wellcome Collection 689184i

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