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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