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Marketing Animals - Antennae The Journal of Nature in Visual Culture

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Kessanlv<br />

Bovril by Electrocution from <strong>The</strong> Graphic, Christmas Number, 1891<br />

39<br />

BOVRIL BY<br />

ELECTRICUTION<br />

I first came across this illustration whilst brows<strong>in</strong>g through Leonard de Vries’s fasc<strong>in</strong>at<strong>in</strong>g collection, Victorian<br />

Advertis<strong>in</strong>g, about twelve years ago. I was look<strong>in</strong>g for someth<strong>in</strong>g else at the time – examples <strong>of</strong> late Victorian<br />

electric belt advertisements as part <strong>of</strong> a project on n<strong>in</strong>eteenth-century medical electricity. Instead, this one jumped<br />

out <strong>of</strong> the page at me.<br />

Text by Iwan Rhys Morus

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