Harpers Weekly Death Candy Antique Dark Halloween Art Poster
An 1865 Harper’s Weekly engraving, ‘A Hint to Parents,’ showing Death grinding candy with arsenic and plaster of Paris. Dark Victorian satire at its best.
Description
This authentic 19th-century newspaper illustration from Harper's Weekly depicts a skeleton labeled Death manufacturing confections laced with 'arsenic' and 'plaster of Paris.' The macabre humor and fine engraved detail make it a standout for Halloween, kitchens and collectors of Victorian ephemera. A genuinely rare antique image with bite.
