pamphlet;
print;
satirical print
- Museum number
- 1868,0612.1197
- Title
- Object: To the Publick. A New Method of relieving such Persons as are thought to be suffocated, or drowned.
- Description
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A pamphlet detailing a method of saving people who have drowned by blowing smoke up their bottom, with an example of the treatment seen in Paris; accompanied by a print illustrating the story; On the shore of a river, a sailor blows smoke up the bottom of a woman who has drowned, while her husband and a small child look on;
Engraving and Etching with Letterpress
- Production date
- 1747
- Dimensions
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Height: 490 millimetres (Full sheet)
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Height: 250 millimetres (Print Plate)
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Width: 386 millimetres (Full sheet)
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Width: 198 millimetres (Print Plate)
- $Inscriptions
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- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1868
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1868,0612.1197
