A woman delivering a bottle of Passugger mineral water: she is divided into a nurse and a waitress, showing its dual nature as health drink and as table water. Colour lithograph after Donald Brun, ca. 1954.

  • Brun, Donald, 1909-1999.
Date:
[1954]
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689687i
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Description

Passugger mineral water rises from a spring at Passugg in the Graubünden (Grisons), Switzerland. It was mentioned in 1562 as an effective preventive of goitre, but was later forgotten. It was rediscovered in 1863 and the Passugger Heilquellen AG company was founded in 1896--website of Allegra Passugger Mineralquellen AG (accessed 29 January 2010)

Publication/Creation

[Basel?] : [publisher not identified], [1954] (Basel : Frobenius A.G.)

Physical description

1 print : lithograph, printed in colours ; sheet 125.3 x 89.4 cm

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Medizinal- u. Tafelwasser Passugger. Für den Haushalt: Passugger "Theophil" in der praktischen grossen Flasche mit Bügelverschluss. Frobenius A.G. Basel. Impression in the Swiss National Library bears an inscription "Donald Brun 1954" in the bottom right corner, above the word "Bügelverschluss"

References note

Not in: Jean-Charles Giroud, Donald Brun, [Zurich]: Museum für Gestaltung Zürich; [Wettingen]: Lars Müller, [2001]

Reference

Wellcome Collection 689687i

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