Objects
[Spectacles health medicine]
REPRODUCTION IMAGES COLLECTION
photograph (colour)
Asia: Japan
2011
photographic paper
overall: 152 mm x 101 mm
2011.854
REPRODUCTION IMAGES COLLECTION
photograph (colour)
Asia: Japan
2011
photographic paper
overall: 152 mm x 101 mm
Modern reproduction of an historic poster depicting a Japanese woman holding in her right hand a medicine cup on which is inscribed an image of a pair of pince-nez and in her left hand a bottle of health medicine on which is pasted a label printed with a pair of pince-nez. In the top corner is another representation of pince-nez and the word 'Spectacles' in Japanese characters. Includes written annotation and date 13 December 1938.
2011.854
Gift of Mr Kohkichi Watanabe, 2011