A healthy boy, protected from tuberculosis by fresh air and exercise. Colour lithograph by André Wilquin, 1942.

  • Wilquin, André, 1899-2000.
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[1942]
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525026i
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A healthy boy, protected from tuberculosis by fresh air and exercise. Colour lithograph by André Wilquin, 1942. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Description

In the foreground, a laughing boy with his arms raised in a "mouvement respiratoire" (Devinck) Background left, girls performing exercises out of doors; background right, children in a swimming pool; background centre, a school building. All, including the artist's signature, in a "modern" style of the 1930s

Publication/Creation

[Paris] : Ministère de la Santé Publique. Comité National de Défense contre la Tuberculose, [1942] (Paris (79 rue Dareau) : Imp. des Beaux-Arts)

Physical description

1 print : lithograph, printed in colours ; sheet 57.3 x 39 cm

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Lettering

Sauvez la jeunesse! Achetez le timbre antituberculeux. La tuberculose est évitable. Wilquin. Ministère de la Santé Publique. Comité National de Défense contre la Tuberculose. "Exonéré du droit de timbre" - lettering in right margin Bears reference numbers: 100.000. 12/42 and V-V-12405

References note

Thierry Devinck, André Wilquin: publicités, Paris: Agence Culturelle de Paris, Mairie de Paris, 1991, no. 82 (giving date as 1942)

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Wellcome Collection 525026i

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