A man using RIPA insecticide to kill bedbugs and get a good night's sleep. Colour lithograph, ca. 1900.

Date:
[1900?]
Reference:
525021i
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Bottom left, a bottle of Ripa, on which the label says, inter alia, "Dépot général pour la Belgique: A. Plaire [name of retailer, or meaning "as you please"?], Rue du Temple 73, Hodimont". Hodimont is a quarter of Verviers

Publication/Creation

[Belgium] : [publisher not identified], [1900?] (Verviers : Em. Wauthy)

Physical description

1 print : lithograph, printed in colours ; sheet 99.5 x 61 cm

Lettering

RIPA le roi des insecticides détruit toutes vermines indistinctement. Parfume sans acide ni poison. En vente dans toutes les drogueries pharmacies et maisons de papiers peints

References note

M. Robert-Sterkendries, La santé s'affiche, Bruxelles: Therabel, 2003, no. 404, p. 212

Reference

Wellcome Collection 525021i

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