The Magic Serpents.
T.W. Lee lith. [n.d., c.1860.] Chromolithograph. Sheet 290 x 255mm (11½ x 10"). Tears. An advert for an indoor firework, with adults and children gathered around a table, a woman lighting a 'black snake', with a serpentine growth spewing from a small cone. An ingredient of one early version was mercury!
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