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Handkerchiefs

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  • An audience of people throwing handkerchiefs (containing money?) onto a stage where an itinerant medicine vendor has been successfully selling his wares. Engraving.
  • A man and a woman applying a handkerchief to a television set showing a sneezing man, to prevent the spread of coughs and colds. Colour lithograph after Allan Carter.
  • A man sneezing in a cinema, showing the use of handkerchiefs to prevent infectious diseases. Colour lithograph after H.M. Bateman, ca. 1951.
  • A man using a handkerchief to prevent the spread of coughs and colds to productive workers. Colour lithograph.
  • An episode in Tristram Shandy: Uncle Toby looks into Widow Wadman's eye, as she holds it open for him. Line engraving by L. Stocks(?) after C.R. Leslie, 1831.
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Catalogue

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    A knotted handkerchief suffering from a cold. Colour process print after Fougasse, 194-.

    Fougasse. | Date: [1945] | Reference: 571224i
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    A man trying to catch germs in a handkerchief. Colour lithograph after Reginald Mount and Carl Giles.

    Mount, Reginald. | Date: [between 1940 and 1949?] | Reference: 24403i
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    A handkerchief trapped in a birdcage, representing the need to prevent the spread of germs by coughs and sneezes. Colour lithograph by D. Dekk, 1946.

    Dekk, Dorrit. | Date: [1946] | Reference: 44094i
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    Three stages in a man's sneezing, represented by the three phases of traffic lights. Colour lithograph.

    | Date: [between 1900 and 1999] | Reference: 24427i
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    The use of handkerchiefs to prevent against flu and other diseases. Colour lithograph, ca. 1950 (?).

    | Date: 1950 | Reference: 576155i
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