Old King Coal and the Fog Demon. John Tenniel, artist. Swain, engraver. Punch (13 November 1880). Source: Internet Archive online version of a copy in the University of Michigan Library. Click on image to enlarge it.
In this Tenniel cartoon that spreads across two full pages, a jolly King Coal (from the nursery rhyme) sits next to a dish labelled “carbon acid” and watches as Death spreads “catarh,” “pthisis,” “pleurisy,” “penumonia,” “bronchistis,” “asthma,” and “sulphurous acid gas” over St. Paul’s and the rest of London.
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Last modified 10 July 2020