Accession No

3964

Brief Description

magazine page from Le Petit Journal, print showing electricity being used to cure tuberculosis, French, 1901 (c)

Origin

France

Maker

Le Petit Journal

Class

prints; medical; electrical

Earliest Date

1901

Latest Date

1901

Inscription Date

Material

paper

Dimensions

(mounted?) breadth 334mm; height 385mm

Special Collection

Provenance

Purchased from Christie’s, London, England; The Nicholas Webster Collection sale, lot 208, 26/09/1991

Inscription

‘LA CURE DE LA TUBERCULOSE’

Description Notes

Reproduced print showing the treatment for tuberculosis being demonstrated to a group. From an edition of the ‘Supplement illustré du Petit Journal’. Printed text on verso including details about the newspaper, Le Petit Journal.

Condition: fair; complete.

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