About this image...

Image Title: Prodige De La Chimie, 1839

Creator: Maurisset, Th?odore, artist

Date: 1839

Summary: French cartoon shows a long line of people, with more arriving by stagecoach and railroad, at a medicine show where a quack with a lion's head, the "Prodige de la chimie," is marketing his hair tonic "De pommade du lion." In the center, a balloon "Envoi de pommade aux habitants de la lune" is being inflated.

Subjects: Balloons (Aircraft)--1830-1840
Hair preparations--1830-1840
Lions--1830-1840
Medicine shows--France--1830-1840
Queues--France--1830-1840

Original Media: Lithograph

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