Fernet-Branca: Flli Branca, Milano
Collection:

Images from the History of Medicine (IHM)

 

Contributor(s):

Fratelli Branca distillerie, issuing body.

 

Publication:

Milan : Fratelli Branca & C., [between 1845 and 1900?]

 

Language(s):

Italian,

English

 

Format:

Still image

 

Subject(s):

Alcoholic Beverages

Dyspepsia -- drug therapy

 

Genre(s):

Advertisements

 

Abstract:

Advertisement for Fernet-Branca. Card features a color illustration of two women with small wine glasses in their hands toasting each other in a field with some flowers. The woman on the left is wearing traditional Italian clothing with an Italian flag. The woman on the right is carrying an American flag. There is a large bottle of Fernet-Branca behind them. The Statue of Liberty is visible in the distance on the right. The company logo, featuring an eagle poised over a globe with a bottle of Fernet-Branca in its talons, is in the foreground, superimposed over the women.

 

Extent:

1 trade card : 14 x 10 cm

 

Technique:

chromolithograph, color

 

NLM Unique ID:

101701739

 

Permanent Link:

resource.nlm.nih.gov/101701739