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Death as a lethal confectioner making up sweets using arsenic and plaster of Paris as ingredients; representing the toxic adulteration of sweets in the 1858 Bradford sweets poisoning Wall Art
ART BY: John Leech
Death as a lethal confectioner making up sweets using arsenic and plaster of Paris as ingredients; representing the toxic adulteration of sweets in the 1858 Bradford sweets poisoning Wall Art
ART BY: John Leech
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About this artwork
Death as a lethal confectioner making up sweets using arsenic and plaster of Paris as ingredients; representing the toxic adulteration of sweets in the 1858 Bradford sweets poisoning is a wood engravings by John Leech (1817–1864), dated 20 November 1858. The artist is catalogued as English. This reproduction is based on the copy in the Wellcome Collection, and the file offered here measures 4514 × 6000 px (7.2 MB). Catalogued under Prints and Realism, in portrait format. Archive Lane holds 113 works by John Leech, a British artist.
John Leech was a British caricaturist and illustrator. He was best known for his work for Punch, a humorous magazine for a broad middle-class audience, combining verbal and graphic political satire with light social comedy.
Biography adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). All works by John Leech →
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Death as a lethal confectioner making up sweets using arsenic and plaster of Paris as ingredients; representing the toxic adulteration of sweets in the 1858 Bradford sweets poisoning is free to preview at web resolution. The original high-resolution file is a one-time purchase, or included with an Archive Lane membership (up to 1,000 high-resolution downloads per day) — and the artwork can also be ordered as a made-to-order print.
