Awful effects of Morison's vegetable pills! Coloured satirical print by C.J. Grant
period print · 1835
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SUMMARY
Wellcome Collection archival record for a hand-coloured satirical print by Charles Jameson (C.J.) Grant lampooning Morison's Vegetable Universal Medicine (Wellcome work tegtzzxw; image L0021197). The print bears the in-image title 'AWFUL EFFECTS OF MORISON'S VEGETABLE PILLS!!!!!', the series header 'DANGER'S MAGIC. No 2', and is signed C.J. Grant. Its printed imprint line, read directly from the asset, is 'London Printed & Pub'd by Dawson, No. 11 Paternoster Row. Nov 5th 1835', and it is a novelty heat-reveal print ('This Print must be exposed to a gentle heat before the fire'); the year is set to 1835 on that imprint rather than left undated. The caption follows the archive title and the print's own lettering and asserts no identification of any individual sitter. A vision inspection of the downloaded file confirmed a hand-coloured satirical scene of a seated man and an alarmed woman by a grate of glowing pills with a contorted face in the mirror above, and the dialogue gag that the pills have made grass 'wegetate thro' your skin'. Rights status: Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). Source for the artifact-role media entity morison-pills-awful-effects-grant.
NOTES
This Wellcome Collection record is the archival source for C.J. Grant’s satirical print attacking the extravagant claims made for Morison’s pills, used as a case artifact. The print’s own imprint dates it to 5 November 1835 (printed and published by Dawson, 11 Paternoster Row, London), and it belongs to Grant’s ‘Danger’s Magic’ series (No. 2). The caption follows the archive title and the print’s own lettering and names no individual. The image is licensed under CC BY 4.0, so the media entity is tagged licensed rather than public-domain, and the credit line names the Wellcome Collection and the licence.