Dr Franck's "Grains de santé" for the digestion: their role in ensuring "freedom of the belly", compared with other freedoms (of speech, of hunting, of marriage, and of labour). Colour lithograph.

Date:
[between 1890 and 1899?]
Reference:
537104i
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Description

In the upper left corner, an illustration of the boxes in which the product is sold: on the left, a multicolour box, on the right a blue box

In the centre, a self-satisfied man smiles as an unsmiling serving girl brings a tureen of soup to his table: he enjoys a good digestion ("freedom of the belly"), thanks to Dr Franck's pills. Around are four roundels illustrating other freedoms: (top left) freedom of speech, in which a speaker on stage exchanges insults with a heckling crowd; (bottom left) freedom of hunting, in which hunters with guns and hounds look for birds or rabbit; (top right) freedom of marriage, in which one scene shows many women pressing around one man and the other shows one man proposing to a woman with many admirers; and freedom of work, in which an idler lies in the fields outside an industrial town and tells his wife and child that he only works on Sundays

Publication/Creation

Paris (91 Rue des Petits-Champs) : [publisher not identified], [between 1890 and 1899?]

Physical description

1 print : lithograph, printed in colours ; sight 37 x 45.5 cm

Lettering

Véritables Grains de santé du Docteur Franck. Stomachiques. Apéritifs. Dépuratifs. Purgatifs. En fait de libertés, la meilleure est encore celle du ventre. ... Dépôt ici. Lettering on the roundels: Liberté de la parole: chacun exprimant son opinion. Liberté de la chasse: on demande a voir un oiseau ou un lapin. Liberté du mariage: toutes pour un, une pour tous. Liberté du travail: je me repose toute la semaine, je ne travaille que le dimanche

Reference

Wellcome Collection 537104i

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