The Chimney Sweep: Good morning! Have you used Pears' Soap? – Antique Print
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Description
This rare historic image captures The Chimney Sweep: Good morning! Have you used Pears' Soap? in remarkable detail. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.
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The Chimney Sweep: Good morning! Have you used Pears' Soap?
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A young chimney sweep, his face still blackened with soot, greets the viewer with the slogan "Good morning! Have you used Pears' Soap?" The joke turns on the contrast between the grime of his trade and the promise of a clean face. In late nineteenth-century Britain, chimney sweeps were often boys who climbed narrow flues, and the work was dirty and dangerous. Pears, a London soap maker, built its advertising around cleanliness and respectability, and this image shows how commercial art of the period carried those values into everyday life.
| Original scan | 535 × 800 px |
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| Reference | 824 |
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