Print: Le Blond Baxter LB 149. Originally published by Baxter as CL 263 in 1854.

Although "I don't like it!" is this prints common name it is also referred to as "So Nasty!", presumably to make a pair with So Nice.

A young child is being made to take the medicine, something that obviously doesn’t taste very nice. Courtney Lewis in 1908 described the child as a young boy, tradition of the 1850’s meant this could be true dressing boys under the age of 11or 12 in what we would refer to today as dresses. He also mentions the young boy would rather be playing Battledore, from the racquet on the floor, a game that from the 1870’s onwards would be known as Badminton.

On the steel plate is engraved, "'So Nasty.' Engraved, Printed, and Published Nov. 11, 1854, by George Baxter, Inventor and Patentee of Oil Colour Picture Printing, 11 & 12, Northampton Square"

Baxter signed his prints low down on the floor. The absence of the signature means it is a Le Blond printing but Le Blond also didn’t use all the colour blocks including the dark green for the dress used in Baxter version making it easy to distinguish.

Date: 1868

Approx. size (cm ht x w): 14.3 x 10.5

State: Unmounted

Condition: Excellent