High Society : mind-altering drugs in history and culture : free exhibition, 11 November - 27 February / Wellcome Collection.
- Wellcome Collection.
- Date:
- 2010
- Ephemera
About this work
Description
Leaflet (folding out to a poster on the reverse) for an exhibition called 'High Society' at Wellcome Collection (183 Euston Road, London) during the Winter of 2010 / 2011. The text is in yellow over an image in blue on pink of the caterpillar on a mushroom from Alice in Wonderland by Mervyn Peake. The exhibition also covers: alcohol, coffee, tobacco, betel nuts, cocaine eye drops, ancient egyptian poppy tinctures and peyote among others.
Publication/Creation
London : Wellcome Collection, 2010.
Physical description
1 folded sheet (8 pages) : color illustrations ; 42 cm (folded to 21 cm)
Contributors
Notes
Dated October 2010.
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Where to find it
Location Status Access Closed storesEPH+47Location Access Closed storesEPH+47:2Note