A nursemaid (?) holding a senile man in her lap and feeding him with "Maraliment", a proprietary seaweed soup. Colour lithograph by L. Cappiello, 1920.

  • Leonetto Cappiello
Date:
[1920]
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11994i
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Looking at the man in this poster in the 1980s, the poster-designer Abram Games said "He looks extraordinarily like me!"

Publication/Creation

[Paris] : [1920] (Paris : Imprimerie Publicité Etabl[issemen]ts Vercasson, 6 Rue Martel, Janvier 1920)

Physical description

1 print : lithograph, printed in colours ; sheet 137.5 x 98 cm

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Pour les enfants, les vieillards et pour tous. La cure marine Maraliment, suraliment aux algues marines. Ce potage est en vente chez tous les épiciers. L. Cappiello. [Paris] :

References note

Jack Rennert, Cappiello: the posters of Leonetto Cappiello, New York 2004, no. 276 ("Designed a few years earlier, it was printed in 1920, three years after Cappiello left Vercasson")

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Wellcome Collection 11994i

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