‘Hodgson’s Genuine Patent Medicines 1/ Infant Preservative’, 1836-1844

Description

Mounted hand coloured etching, entitled ‘HODGSON’S GENUINE PATENT MEDICINES 1 / INFANTS PRESERVATIVE’, designed and etched by anon, and published by Orlando Hodgson, between 1836-1844.

The etching is a satire on the claims made by manufacturers of Infants Preservative, a proprietary medicine given to babies and young children. Two women, one a pauper dressed in rags, the other in her working clothes, discuss the state of the tumbledown tenement in the background.

Lettering below the design reads: “O Mrs. Easy, your house says its going to tumble down upon the spot and your Child is in the cockloft.” “Never you mind Miss Fume, I gave it a bottle of Infants Preservative before I came out so there is no danger”.
Mounted hand coloured etching, entitled ‘HODGSONS GENUINE PATENT MEDICINES / CURE FOR THE ITCH’, designed and etched by anon, and published by Orlando Hodgson, between 1836-1844.

A fiddle player in old patched clothes, presents a surprised Chemist and Druggist with a broken fiddle. The Chemis