(MEDICINE) New York Quinine and Chemical Company Strychnine

Sale 2481 - Lot 366

Price Realized: $ 500

?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price

Estimate: $ 300 - $ 500

(MEDICINE.) New York Quinine and Chemical Company. Strychnine, Morphine, Cocaine and Quinine. Watercolor and gouache on board overlaid with six cut-and-pasted chromolithographic medicinal bottle images. 14x9 inches board size; 9 1/2x6 1/4 inches image size; age toned but colors bright and fresh. New York, circa 1900

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Fine original advertisement paste-up for a prominent turn of the twentieth-century pharmaceutical manufacturer. An Art Nouveau border of red poppies and containers of various "medicines" surround the central image of a handsome chief in the upper register; below, a team of pack-mules climb out of the mountains with their panniers fully loaded with raw product.