A woman representing syphilis; advertising Dr Abreu's sanatorium for syphilitics in Barcelona. Colour collotype by J. Thomas after R. Casas, ca. 1900.
- Casas, Ramón, 1866-1932.
- Date:
- [1900?]
- Reference:
- 752721i
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Description
She holds a lily (?) in front of her, presumably to give the appearance of innocence. On her back however, knotted into her shawl, is a snake. In the lettering, the s's of the word Sífilis are also in the form of a snake
Publication/Creation
[Barcelona] : [Sanatorio para sifilíticos], [1900?] (Barcelona : J. Thomas)
Physical description
1 print : collotype, printed in three colours ; image and lettering 66.3 x 28.2 cm
Lettering
Sífilis. Curación absoluta y radical en el Sanatorio para sifilíticos Calle mayor de la Bonanova 74. Para mas informes al Dr Abreu, calle Vergara 10, Barcelona, ó en el mismo establecimiento al administrador Sr. Rumiá. R. Casas
References note
The picture of health: images of medicine and pharmacy from the William H. Helfand Collection; commentaries by William H. Helfand ; essays by Patricia Eckert Boyer, Judith Wechsler, and Maurice Rickards, Philadelphia : Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1991, p. 29
R. Castejón, E. Perdiguero, and R. Ballester, 'The mass media at the service of the fight against venereal diseases and the protection of maternal-infant health (1900-50)', História, ciências, saúde -- Manguinhos, Apr.-June 2006, 13: pp. 113-138 (p. 117)
Jaume Tarrés Pujol, 'Josep Thomàs i la "Sociedad Heliografica Española": origen de les impressions en fotogravat a l'Estat', Revista Cartòfila, Barcelona: El Cercle Cartòfil de Catalunya, 2007, pp. 21-25
Albert Bada Ortoll, Alexis Belmonte, Laia Foix, Mayte Lingg, and Pep Parer, 'La Fototipia Thomas. La empresa y los fotógrafos. IV Jornadas sobre investigación en historia de la fotografía. 1839-1939: Un siglo de fotografía', preprint, Institut d'Estudis Fotogràfics de Catalunya, 2021
Reference
Wellcome Collection 752721i
Creator/production credits
J. Thomas (Josep Thomàs i Bigas) of Barcelona was an innovator in photogravure printing, both in monochrome and in trichromy, carried out in his large premises constructed at 365 Carrer de Mallorca in Barcelona in 1895-1898
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