Dobbins' Medicated Toilet Soap advertising lithograph with women – Antique Wall Art
(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
Description
This rare antique lithograph captures Dobbins' Medicated Toilet Soap advertising lithograph with women in remarkable detail. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.
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Dobbins' Medicated Toilet Soap advertising lithograph with women
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Dobbins' Medicated Toilet Soap was one of many nineteenth-century American soaps sold with bold, sentimental advertising, and this lithograph shows the sales pitch at work: women are pictured in a domestic setting, presenting the soap as a respectable, refined choice for the household. Color lithography was the leading method for commercial advertising at the time, allowing manufacturers to reproduce vivid images cheaply in large runs for shop windows, trade cards and magazines. Such pictures reveal as much about Victorian ideas of cleanliness, beauty and womanly duty as they do about the product itself, which makes them valuable to historians of advertising and daily life.
| Original scan | 6,286 × 7,776 px · prints to 21 × 26 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | 08126u |
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