This is a file from the Wikimedia Commons
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Original file ‎(3,485 × 2,370 pixels, file size: 4.14 MB, MIME type: image/jpeg)

Summary

William Heath: Monster Soup commonly called Thames Water   ( Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)   Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Artist
William Heath  (–1840)    wikidata:Q8011810
 
Alternative names
Paul Pry; William, I Heath; William Heath I; Heath; Wiliam Heath
Description British artist
Date of birth/death 1795 7 April 1840  Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death London
Authority file
artist QS:P170,Q8011810
Title
Monster Soup commonly called Thames Water
Description

A woman dropping her tea-cup in horror upon discovering the monstrous contents of a magnified drop of Thames water; revealing the impurity of London drinking water. Coloured etching by W. Heath.

Iconographic Collections
Keywords: William Heath; metropolitan water board (lond; Metropolitan Water Board (London); heath, william {c.1795-1840}; SATIRE
Date 1828
date QS:P571,+1828-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Credit line

This file comes from Wellcome Images, a website operated by Wellcome Trust, a global charitable foundation based in the United Kingdom. Refer to Wellcome blog post ( archive).
This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still required. See Commons:Licensing.

References
Source/Photographer

https://wellcomeimages.org/indexplus/obf_images/62/48/46b9f51efbdc16c018e8d8d03778.jpg

Licensing

Public domain
This work was published before January 1, 1929 and it is anonymous or pseudonymous due to unknown authorship. It is in the public domain in the United States as well as countries and areas where the copyright terms of anonymous or pseudonymous works are 95 years or fewer since publication.
w:en:Creative Commons
attribution
This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license.
You are free:
  • to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work
  • to remix – to adapt the work
Under the following conditions:
  • attribution – You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.

Information

Captions

A 19th century woman drops her tea-cup in horror upon viewing a magnified drop of polluted Thames water, which was a prime source of water-borne diseases such as cholera and typhoid.

Items portrayed in this file

depicts

MIME type

image/jpeg

File history

Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.

Date/TimeThumbnailDimensionsUserComment
current 22:18, 28 October 2014 Thumbnail for version as of 22:18, 28 October 20143,485 × 2,370 (4.14 MB)Fæ=={{int:filedesc}}== {{Artwork |artist = |author = |title = An woman dropping her tea-cup in horror upon discovering the |description = An woman dropping her tea-cup in horror upon discovering the monstrous c...

Global file usage

The following other wikis use this file:

Metadata

This file contains additional information, probably added from the digital camera or scanner used to create or digitize it.

If the file has been modified from its original state, some details may not fully reflect the modified file.

Retrieved from " /info/en/?search=File:Monster_Soup_commonly_called_Thames_Water._Wellcome_V0011218.jpg"