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- Title
BROOKE'S MONKEY BRAND SOAP.
- Authors
Miller, John
- Abstract
Brooke's Monkey Brand Soap was a common, even iconic, presence in the pages of late nineteenth-century illustrated newspapers in Britain. Barely an issue of the London Illustrated News, The Graphic or The Sketch passed without a full or half page spread of Brooke's ubiquitous monkey, arrayed in one of its many baffling guises: promenading in top hat and tails, juggling cooking pots in a jester's get-up, strumming a mandolin on the moon, destitute and begging by the side of the road, kneeling to accept a medal from a glamorous Frenchwoman, careering along on a bicycle with feet on the handle-bars, clinging precariously to a ship's mast, carefully polishing the family china and here in 1891, sliding gleefully down the banisters with legs spread wide and the hint of a smile while two neat Victorian children watch calmly on.
- Subjects
SOAP advertising; BROOKE, Benjamin; LEVER Brothers Co.; ADVERTISING of periodicals; MONKEYS in art; ANIMALS in advertising
- Publication
Antennae: The Journal of Nature in Visual Culture, 2012, Issue 23, p80
- ISSN
1756-9575
- Publication type
Article