Object Details
- Description
- A cartoon in watercolor and ink. Medicines carried by a soldier jokes “Batten Nevr” (Battered nerves), “Baren Fett” (Bear fat), "gesund heits trank fur schwangere” (sound cheerful potion for pregnancies). The image was replicated by Johann Christian Benjamin Gottschick (1776-1844) from a drawing by Christian Johann Oldendorp (1772-1844?).
- This image is possibly from Oldendorp's book "Unglück und Rettung oder Jugendschicksale eines Offiziers aus der Zeit Friedrichs des Großen" printed in 1826 in Leipzig.)
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of American Pharmaceutical Association and Bristol-Myers Squibb Company
- ca 1826
- ID Number
- 1991.0664.0065
- accession number
- 1991.0664
- catalog number
- M-06271
- collector/donor number
- SAP 964
- Object Name
- Other Terms
- print; ART OBJECTS
- Physical Description
- paper (overall material)
- ink (overall material)
- watercolor (overall material)
- brown (overall color)
- black (overall color)
- blue (overall color)
- green (overall color)
- red (overall color)
- yellow (overall color)
- Measurements
- overall: 24.4 cm x 18.2 cm; 9 5/8 in x 7 3/16 in
- Related Publication
- Urdang, George and Ferdinand William Nitardy. The Squibb Ancient Pharmacy: A Catalogue of the Collection
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Medicine
- Health & Medicine
- European Apothecary
- Art
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- Public Health
- Ophthalmology
- Pharmacy
- Record ID
- nmah_994029
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a8-7538-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
